Bethlehemumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém), from Biblical Hebrew בּית לחם‎ (Bet Léchem). The Ancient Greek etymon and all the other forms of this word are indeclinable; Bēthlehēmum was adapted to decline as a neuter proper noun of the second declension.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /beːtʰ.leˈheː.mum/, [beːt̪ʰɫ̪eˈ(ɦ)eːmʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bet.leˈe.mum/, [bet̪leˈɛːmum]

固有名詞

Bēthlehēmum n sg (genitive Bēthlehēmī); second declension

1. Bethlehem (a town of the tribe of Judah, the birthplace of David かつ of Christ, now Bēt Laḥm)

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

同意語

• (Bethlehem): Ephrāta

派生語

派生した語

• English: bedlam, Bethlehem

参照

• “Bēthlĕhēmum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• Bethleem on the Latin Wikipedia.