Certamenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (faithful to Latin original) IPA: [kɛɹˈtɑːmɛn]
• (Anglicised) IPA: [kɚˈtɑmən]

名詞

certamen (uncountable)

1. A team competition in which contestants answer questions about classical history, culture, and mythology, and the Latin language.
   • 1983 August 12, Susan Chira, Special To the New York Times, “A Roman Holiday Upstate”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     It was the semifinal round of Certamen, Latin for contest, the Junior Classical League's answer to “It's Academic.” Two teams of four-each sat across from a judge, and pressed buzzers that lighted up a bulb showing which team responded first.

   • 1988 February 21, Tessa Melvin, “A Latin revival takes the stage at John Jay High School”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     There's the “certamen” or contest, similar, Mrs. Nicholls said, to a television quiz show. Students compete against other schools in mythology, history and trivia. Anyone can enter - all they have to know is some Latin.

アナグラム

• Arcement

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kɛrˈtaː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [t͡ʃerˈt̪aː.men]

名詞

certāmen n (genitive certāminis); third declension

1. A contest, race, struggle, strife.

   Synonym: simultās

2. A battle, engagement, combat.

   Synonyms: certatus, duellum, rixa, bellum

   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, I Timotheum 6:12, page 1836:

     certa bonum certamen

     fight the good fight

3. An object contended for, prize.

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

派生語

• certāmen equōrum (“horse race”)

関連する語

派生した語

• → Catalan: certamen
• → English: certamen
• → Italian: certame
• → Portuguese: certame
• → Spanish: certamen

参照

• “certamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “certamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "certamen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “certamen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • gymnastic contests: certamina gymnica
    
  • party-strife: certamen partium
    
  • to engage in the fight: in certamen descendere
    
  • single combat: certamen singulare
    
  • to challenge some one to single combat: povocare aliquem ad certamen singulare