quintusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin Quīntus (“masculine praenomen”), from quīntus (“fifth”).

固有名詞

Quintus (plural Quintuses or Quinti)

1. A male given name from Latin
   • 1894, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, Louis Claude Purser, “Part VII. Letters from Cicero’s Return to Italy after the Battle of Pharsalia to the Death of Tullia.”, in The Correspondence of M. Tullius Cicero, […] (Dublin University Press Series), volume IV, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co. […]; London: Longmans, Green, & Co., […], →OCLC, footnote 1, pages 239 and 256:

     Q. Q.] ‘the two Quinti.’ Quintus, the brother of Cicero, and his son Quintus. […] utinam mederi] ‘would that my nearest and dearest had chosen to relieve my sufferings, rather than to aggravate them’; he refers to the Quinti and Terentia.

   • 1937 September 8, Quintus Quiz [pseudonym], “Life Owes You Nothing”, in Charles Clayton Morrison, editor, The Christian Century, volume LIV, number 36, Chicago, Ill.: Christian Century Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1097, column 1:

     “Quintus, I want a word with you,” said the other Quintus, for there are two Quinti.

   • 1988, Suzanne Dixon, “The Roman Mother and the Adolescent or Adult Son”, in The Roman Mother, Beckenham, Greater London; Sydney, N.S.W.: Croom Helm, →ISBN, page 190:

     Cicero’s preoccupation with the slander spread by the two Quinti about him at a dangerous time would in any case have led him to focus less on everyday family ructions.

   • 2002, Colleen McCullough, “The March of Cato’s Ten Thousand […]”, in The October Horse (Masters of Rome; 6), London: Century, →ISBN, section 1, page 127:

     Neither of the Quintuses moved, too enthralled to care what Gnaeus Pompey did to the family tyrant.

2. A male surname from Latin

語源

From quīntus (“fifth”), itself from quīnque (“five”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkʷiːn.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkʷin.tus]

固有名詞

Quīntus m (genitive Quīntī); second declension

1. a masculine praenomen, originally used for a fifth-born son (not counting daughters).

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

• Corsican: Quintu
• → Dutch: Kwint, Kwinten, Quint, Quinten
• → English: Quint
• French: Quint, Quentin
• → Ancient Greek: Κόϊντος (Kóïntos), Κύϊντος (Kúïntos), Κούϊντος (Koúïntos), Κύειντος (Kúeintos), Κύντος (Kúntos)
• → Greek: Κόιντος (Kóintos), Κοΐντας (Koḯntas)
• Italian: Quinto
• → Polish: Kwintus
• Portuguese: Quinto
• → Russian: Квинт (Kvint)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Kvint
• → Slovene: Kvint
• Spanish: Quinto
• → Swedish: Qvintus, Quintus

参考

参照

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