Spatiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• spacium (early Medieval Latin)

語源

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁-to- (“extended”), an extension of *speh₁- (“to prosper, succeed”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈspa.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈspat.t͡si.um]

名詞

spatium n (genitive spatiī or spatī); second declension

1. space, room, extent
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.683–684:

     gentibus est aliīs tellūs data līmite certō:
     Rōmānae spatium est urbis et orbis īdem.

     To other nations, land has been allotted with a certain limit.
     The extent of the Roman city and of the world is the same.
     Or, in more natural English:
     Though other nations have been granted land with a border,
     the city of Rome's extent equals that of the world.

2. distance between points
3. a square, walk, or promenade
4. racetrack, lap or a race, or racecourse
5. period or interval of time

   Synonym: intervallum

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.7:

     Tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites quos imperaverat convenirent, legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.

     Yet, in order that a period might intervene, until the soldiers whom he had ordered [to be furnished] should assemble, he replied to the ambassadors, that he would take time to deliberate; if they wanted any thing, they might return on the day before the ides of April.

6. quantity of length
7. time or leisure, as with opportunity

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生語

• spatiolum
• spatior
• spatiōsus

派生した語

参照

• “spatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "spatium", 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)
• “spatium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto
    
  • to finish a very long journey: longum itineris spatium emetiri
    
  • to require, give, take time for deliberation: tempus (spatium) deliberandi or ad deliberandum postulare, dare, sibi sumere
    
  • to give some one a few days for reflection: paucorum dierum spatium ad deliberandum dare
    
  • after some time: spatio temporis intermisso
    
  • to give time for recovery: respirandi spatium dare
    
• spatium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “spatium”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 568-569