promunturiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unclear.^[1] The first element can be identified as the prefix prō-. Although the end of the word resembles the suffix -tōrium, the spelling with -torium seems to postdate that with -turium, and the word scans in Ovid Metamorphoses 15.709 as prōmuntŭrĭumque (per Müller, who rejects the alternative of reading this line with synizesis as prōmuntūr.jumque^[2][3]).

The second element is typically considered to be mōns, montis (“mountain”)^[1][4] (phonetic variation between /o/ かつ /u/ before a nasal in a closed syllable can be explained). However, several other suggestions have been made. De Vaan, noting that -tōrium is typically affixed to verb bases, proposes an alternative etymology from prōmoneō (“warn”) via contraction of *prōmonetōriom, with the idea that a word meaning "warner" might be used to refer to a "'signpost' in the landscape".^[4] Lewis and Short (1879) and Gaffiot (1934) favor a connection with prōmineō (“project, jut out”), but Ernout and Meillet (1985) consider this difficult^[1].

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proː.munˈtu.ri.um/, [proːmʊn̪ˈt̪ʊriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro.munˈtu.ri.um/, [promun̪ˈt̪uːrium]

名詞

prōmunturium n (genitive prōmunturiī または prōmunturī); second declension

1. peak, ridge, highest part of a mountain chain.
2. cape, headland, promontory, ness
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.709:^[5]

     inde legit Capreas promunturiumque Minervae / et Surrentino generosos palmite colles

     • Translation by Frank Justus Miller

       Thence he skirted Capreae, Minerva's promontory, and the hills of Surrentum rich in vines

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “promunturium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “promunturium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• promunturium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    
  • to double a cape: promunturium superare
    
  • to double an island, cape: superare insulam, promunturium