postliminiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Latin postliminium, after + a threshold.

名詞

postliminium (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 postliminia)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy^[1]
2. (law) The right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
   • 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:

     Postliminium […] is a right recognized by the law of nations , and contributes essentially to mitigate the calamities of war

参照

• “postliminium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

語源

From post (“after”) +‎ līmen (“threshold”) +‎ -ium.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /post.liːˈmi.ni.um/, [pɔs̠(t̪)lʲiːˈmɪniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /post.liˈmi.ni.um/, [post̪liˈmiːnium]

名詞

postlīminium n (genitive postlīminiī または postlīminī); second declension

1. the postliminy, the return to one's own country and one's former privileges

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

派生語

• postlīminiō

派生した語

• → English: postliminy, postliminium
• → Italian: postliminio

Reference

• postliminium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “postliminium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• postliminium in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung