Sextusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Sex., S. (abbreviation)

語源

From sextus, probably originally referring to the month of birth, sextīlis (“August”), rather than to birth order.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈsɛk.stʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈsɛk.stus]

固有名詞

Sextus m (genitive Sextī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen, particularly popular in Gaul. (Occasionally also found as a cognomen.) In particular:
   1. Sextus Pompeius (a Roman general from the late Republic)
      • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistuale ad Atticum 16.4.2.1:

        Sextum autem nūntiant cum ūnā sōlum legiōne fuisse ad Carthāginem

        The messengers further report that Sextus had been at Carthage with only one legion

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• → Ancient Greek: Σέξτος (Séxtos)

参照

Further reading

• “Sextus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Sextus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• 1916, Lindley Richard Dean, A Study of the Cognomina of Soldiers in the Roman Legions, page 72,79:

  The use of Primus, Secundus, Tertius, Quintus, Sextus, and Decimus as praenomina is noted in a later section. Quintus and Sextus, the latter particularly, seem to have been used longer as praenomina and for that reason their employment as cognomina falls later than the first century. […] The numeral adjectives Primus, Secundus, Tertius, and Sextus were employed as praenomina at one time. The use of Sextus as a praenomen is probably more common than as a cognomen.