conticiniumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• conticium, conticinnum, conticuum

語源

From conticeō (“be silent”) or conticiscō (“become still”) +‎ -ium. The second -n- is by analogy with the coordinate term gallicinium.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.tiˈki.ni.um/, [kɔn̪t̪ɪˈkɪniʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.tiˈt͡ʃi.ni.um/, [kon̪t̪iˈt͡ʃiːnium]

名詞

conticinium n (genitive conticiniī または conticinī); second declension

1. The period of the late evening when animals cease to make noise.

使用する際の注意点

In Bede et al., a particular period of night following the appearance of the stars at vespers and before intempestum (“midnight”).

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

上位語

• nox

参照

• conticinium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conticinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• "Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy", p. 6, in Popular Treatises on Science Written during the Middle Ages (1841), London: Historical Society of Science.