maiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈmeɪ.ə/, /ˈmaɪ.ə/
• 韻: -eɪə, -aɪə

固有名詞

Maia

1. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Atlas and mother of Hermes.
2. (Roman mythology) The goddess of growth after whom the month May (Latin maius) was named.
3. A female given name from Latin of recent usage.
4. (astronomy) A star in the constellation Taurus. It is the fourth brightest star in the Pleiades cluster.
5. (astronomy) 66 Maja, a main belt asteroid.

語源 2

固有名詞

Maia

1. A language spoken in the Madang province of Papua New Guinea.

参考

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Maia terms

参照

• Maia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Maja on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• A.A.M.I., amia

語源 1

As a figure of Greek mythology, from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa, “Maia”), from Ancient Greek μαῖα (maîa, “lady”). As a figure of Roman religion and myth, of uncertain origin, possibly originally a native Latin formation from a feminine suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”) (compare Maius as an epithet of Jupiter) that was conflated with the Greek goddess.

固有名詞

Maia f sg (genitive Maiae); first declension

1. Maia, specifically:
   1. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Atlas and mother of Hermes.
   2. (Roman mythology) The goddess of growth after whom the month May (Latin maius) was named.
   3. (astronomy) A star in the constellation Taurus. It is the fourth brightest star in the Pleiades cluster.

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

派生語

• maiālis/majālis

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

形容詞

Maia

1. inflection of Maius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

形容詞

Maiā

1. ablative feminine singular of Maius

参照

Further reading

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