xeniumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (British) enPR: ʹzēnĭəm; IPA: /ˈziːnɪəm/

名詞

xenium (plural xenia)

1. A gift or offering.
   • 1872, Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott, Traditions and customs of cathedrals, page 136:

     At Rochester the Bishop received a xenium or pension on St. Andrew's Day from the convent.

   1. (historical) A gift or offering given to a guest or a stranger, especially of food, in Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.

関連する語

• xenial

参照

• “xenium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Xenium”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 2 (V–Z), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 4.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈksɛ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈksɛː.ni.um]

名詞

xenium n (genitive xeniī or xenī); second declension

1. a present, gift, especially one for a host or vice-versa.

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生語

• xeniolum

参照

• “xenium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "xenium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “xenium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.