antoeciとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• antoikoi
• antœci (廃れた用法)

語源

From the Latin antoecī, from the Ancient Greek ἄντοικοι (ántoikoi, “dwellers opposite”), from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “dwelling”).

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: ăntēʹsī, IPA^(key): /ænˈtiːsaɪ/

名詞

antoeci pl (複数形 only)

1. The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.
   • 1622, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie in Four Bookes, Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, introduction, page 20, column 1 (published in 1674)

     Antœci are such as dwell under the same Meridian and the same Latitude or Parallel equally distant from the Æquator; the one northward, the other Southward; the days in both places being of a length; but the Summer of the one being the others winter.

   • 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth, book 2, page 174 (1697 edition)

     Antichthones…comprehend both the Antipodes and Antœci, or all beyond the Line[.]

   • 1796, Charles Hutton, A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, volume 1, page 121, column 1

     Antœci…have their noon, or midnight, or any other hour at the same time; but their seasons are contrary, being spring to the one, when it is autumn with the other.

派生語

• antoecian

参考

• antipodeans
• ecumene
• perioeci