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• Æthiopia (archaic)

語源

From Latin Aethiopia, from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithíops), of Proto-Hellenic origin. Displaced native 古期英語 Siġelhearwena land (literally “land of the sun worshippers”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌiːθiˈəʊ.pi.ə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌi.θiˈoʊ.pi.ə/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˌi.θeˈo.pe.ə/
• (Wales) IPA: /ˌiːθiːˈoːpi.ə/
• 韻: -əʊpiə
• ハイフネーション: E‧thi‧o‧pi‧a

固有名詞

Ethiopia

1. A country in East Africa.
   • 1991, Tesfaye Tesemma, “Improvement of indigenous durum wheat landraces in Ethiopia” in Plant Genetic Resources of Ethiopia, 288:

     Wheat has been and continues to be one of the most important cereal crops in Ethiopia in terms of both area under cultivation and production.

   • 2024 July 23, Nimi Princewill, Mek Tekeste and Louis Mian, “More than 200 dead in southern Ethiopia landslides”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 4 August 2024:

     The death toll from two landslides in a remote region of southern Ethiopia on Monday has risen to 229, according to local authorities.

   1. The Ethiopian Empire, from c. 1270 to 1974; Abyssinia.
   2. Italian Ethiopia, from 1936 to 1941.
   3. Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1987; Derg.
   4. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, since 1987.
2. (historical) Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the parts south of Egypt and along and east of the Nile.
   • 1553, Richard Eden, A treatyse of the newe India, unnumbered:

     The Diamande is engendred in the mynes of India, Ethiopia, Arabia, Macedonia, and Cyprus, and in the golde mynes of the same countries.

   • 1858, George Leighton Ditson, The Para Papers on France, Egypt and Ethiopia, page 243:

     The Greeks denominated this region of the country, undefined in its limits, Ethiopia or the ‘land of black faces’; the people we call Nubians, are by the Arabs comprehended under the general name of Baraba, and if you enter the bureau of a merchant, or the mansion of a wealthy personage at Cairo or Alexandria, you will be pretty sure to find the atendants to be Berberees.

上位語

• Subsahara
• Horn

派生した語

• → Gujarati: ઇથિયોપિયા (ithiyopiyā)
• → Hindi: इथियोपिया (ithiyopiyā)
• → Korean: 에티오피아 (etiopia)
• → Navajo: Iithiyópya
• → Yoruba: Ìtíópíà

参考

• Addis Ababa
• Abyssinia
• Countries of the world
• Ethiopia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語形変化

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