Graecitasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Graecus (“of または belonging to the Greeks”, “Greek”, “Grecian”, adjective) +‎ -tās (“-ity”, “-ness”, suffix forming nouns)

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrae̯.ki.taːs/, [ˈɡräe̯kɪt̪äːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡre.t͡ʃi.tas/, [ˈɡrɛːt͡ʃit̪äs]

固有名詞

Graecitās f sg (genitive Graecitātis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) Greek (the Greek language, familiar to the ancients)
   • CE 438, Codex Theodosianus, Book XIV, 9.3.1:

     Habeat igitur audītōrium speciāliter nostrum in hīs prīmum, quōs Rōmānae ēloquentiae doctrīna commendat, ōrātōrēs quidem trēs numerō, decem vērō grammaticōs; in hīs etiam, quī fācundiā graecitātis pollēre nōscuntur, quīnque numerō sint sofistae et grammaticī aequē decem.

     Therefore let our school specially have firstly among these (professors), whom the instruction of Roman eloquence recommends, exactly three orators in number (and) specifically ten grammarians; also among them, who are recognized to prevail in Greek eloquence, let there be five sophists in number and equally ten grammarians.

語形変化

Third-declension noun, singular only.

派生した語

• English: Graecity
• French: grécité
• German: Gräzität
• Italian: grecità
• Romanian: grecitate
• Portuguese: grecidade

参照

• “Graecĭtas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• GRÆCITAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• græcĭtās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 719/2
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “graecitas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 474/2