danubiusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Dānuvius

語源

From Proto-Celtic *Dānowyos, an extended form of the river-name *Dānu, either from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂nu (“river goddess”) or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- (“run, flow”).

固有名詞

Dānubius m sg (genitive Dānubiī or Dānubī); second declension

1. Danube (a river in Europe; flowing 2,850 kilometers from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine, into the Black Sea)
   • Tacitus, Gemanica, chapter 1 (Oxford revised translation)

     Germania omnis a Gallis Rhaetisque et Pannoniis Rheno et Danubio fluminibus.

     Germany is separated from Gaul, Rhaetia, and Pannonia, by the rivers Rhine and Danube.

語形変化

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生した語

All descendants are borrowings.