computatoriumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From computō (“to reckon”) +‎ -tōrium (locational または instrumental substantivization), neuter of -tōrius. In the medieval attestations, likely a mechanical rendering of the early Romance equivalent of modern French comptoir into proper Latin; in the New Latin sense, translates English computer.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kom.pu.taːˈtoː.ri.um/, [kɔmpʊt̪äːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom.pu.taˈto.ri.um/, [komput̪äˈt̪ɔːrium]

名詞

computātōrium n (genitive computātōriī または computātōrī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) counter, compter (various inanimate senses)
   1. table, desk or chest for counting (または keeping) money
   2. token used for keeping count
   3. room or house for counting (accounting)
   4. (England) compter, sheriff's court or prison

      Synonym: (Medieval Latin, less common) computārium

2. (New Latin) computer (reckoning device)

   Synonyms: (New Latin) computātrum, ōrdinātrum, ōrdinātōrium

Notes

• One of the words used in contemporary Latin to denote the 20th-century invention of the computer, this one makes use of known morphology that was rare in BC Latin, but became more widely applied later.

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

参照

• computatorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• computatorius, computatorium - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.