conticiniumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kɔn.tɪˈkɪ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kon.tiˈt͡ʃiː.ni.um]

名詞

conticinium n (genitive conticiniī or 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).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

上位語

• nox

派生した語

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.