EIUSとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈei̯.i̯us/, [ˈɛi̯ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.jus/, [ˈɛːjus]
• The first syllable scans as heavy in Classical Latin verse. In accordance with this, some dictionaries and other linguistic resources mark the "E" in the first syllable with a length marker (ēius/ējus): however, there is no consensus that the vowel itself was long. Historically, some scholars have thought that the first syllable contained a long vowel /eː/ derived by monophthongization of an earlier diphthong [ei̯]. But the geminate consonant /jj/, which was regularly written with single "i" in Latin, would have rendered the preceding syllable heavy even if the vowel itself was short /e/. Compare peior and ieiūnus, and see the discussion of intervocalic -i- in Allen 1978:38-40. An alternative interpretation treats the first syllable as containing a diphthong /ei̯/; this is essentially equivalent to /ej/, as there is no contrast in Latin between vowel-consonant sequences ending in /j/ and diphthongs ending in i̯. (Cser 2016:31-37 discusses the question of the best phonemic analysis of so-called 'diphthongs' in Latin and concludes that it is preferable to analyze them all as vowel-consonant sequences such as /ej/.)
• An iambic pronunciation, /e.jus/ (with a light first syllable) may occur in Plautus.

代名詞

eius

1. genitive singular of is, ea, and id: his, of him, her, of her, its, of it; of this/of that
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Daniel.1.2:

     Et tradidit Dominus in manu eius Ioachim regem Iudae.

     And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand.

派生した語

• Sardinian: eju

参考

• suus, sua, suum

参照

Further reading

• “eius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• eius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1)
    
  • nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: semper memoria eius in (omnium) mentibus haerebit
    
  • no word escaped him: nullum verbum ex ore eius excidit (or simply ei)
    
  • he is in a suspicious mood: suspicio insidet in animo ejus