Nuntiusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

nuntius (plural nuntii)

1. (chiefly theater) A messenger.

   Synonym: nuncius

2. (Roman Catholicism) A nuncio.

語源

Uncertain; competing hypotheses include:

• From Proto-Indo-European *newH- (“to cry”), whence Sanskrit नु (nu, “to sound out, praise”), नवते (navate, “to cry”), Old Irish núall (“a loud noise”), Tocharian B nu- (“to roar”). This is tentatively favored by De Vaan.
• Contracted from noventius, from an obsolete noveō, from novus, though this is rejected by De Vaan due to the hypothetical proto-form *no(wo)wentio- not making sense morphologically.
• From Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to nod”), same source as Latin *nuō, Ancient Greek νεύω (neúō, “to beckon, nod”) and Old Irish noid (“make known”). This derivation may be a relic of an era when laryngeal theory was not as widely accepted and *newH- (“to cry”) was considered the same root as *new- (“to nod”), in which case the *new- derivation should be discarded.
• From Etruscan [script needed] (nunth, “to bring”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnuːn.ti.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈnun.t͡si.us]

名詞

nūntius m (genitive nūntiī or nūntī, feminine nūntia); second declension

1. a messenger, reporter, courier

   Synonyms: internūntia, praecō

2. an envoy, message, report
3. a command, order, injunction

   Synonyms: dēcrētum, praeceptum, iussus, ēdictum, ēdictiō, scītum, dēcrētiō, mandātum, imperium

4. (in the plural) news, tidings, information

   Synonyms: fāma, indicium

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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参照

Further reading

• “nuntius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nuntius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "nuntius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “nuntius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to separate, be divorced (used of man or woman): nuntium remittere alicui (De Or. 1. 40)
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “nŭntius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 7: N–Pas, page 242