axamentaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From axō (“I name, nominate”) +‎ -mentum.

According to Lewis & Short, from the sense of 'plank' of axis, as that's what the poems were written on.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ak.saːˈmen.ta/, [äks̠äːˈmɛn̪t̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ak.saˈmen.ta/, [äksäˈmɛn̪t̪ä]

名詞

axāmenta n pl (genitive axāmentōrum); second declension

1. religious hymns, which were annually sung by the Salii
   • 8th C. CE, Paulus Diaconus (author), Karl Otfried Müller (editor), Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum (1839), page 3, line 6:

     Axāmenta dīcēbantur carmina Saliāria, quae ā Saliīs sacerdōtibus canēbantur, in ūnīversōs hominēs composita. Nam in deōs singulōs versūs factī ā nōminibus eōrum appellābantur, ut Iānulī, Iūnōniī, Minerviī.

     Axamenta were called the incantations of the Salii, which were sung by the Salii priests, written for all people. Because verses written for individual gods were called by their names, like Janus verses, Juno verses, Minerva verses.

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

参照

• “axamenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• axamenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette