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固有名詞

Italia

1. (rare) Synonym of Italy.
   • 1881, Oscar Wilde, “[Rosa Mystica.] Sonnet on approaching Italy.”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 39:

     I reached the Alps: the soul within me burned / Italia, my Italia, at thy name: / And when from out the mountain’s heart I came / And saw the land for which my life had yearned, / I laughed as one who some great prize had earned: […]

   • 1866 February, James Freeman Clarke, “Riviera di Ponente”, in The Atlantic Monthly‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 October 2022, page 202:

     There, through each long happy day, winding slowly on our way, / Travellers from across the ocean, toward Italia journeyed we,— / Each long day, that, richer, fairer, / Showed the charming Riviera.

   • 2014 February 20, Liza Donnelly, “Live-Drawing Women’s Figure Skating”, in The New Yorker‎, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 June 2025:

     Carolina Kostner of Italia does good.

   • 2016 December 11, Deb Amlen, quoting Mark McClain, “Communication Problem”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 December 2016:

     I’ve used language gimmicks in several puzzles (recently used answer/clue: TRE – “It’s over due in Italia”).

語源

From Latin Italia. Doublet of Eotol.

発音

• IPA: /ˈi.tɑ.li.ɑ/

固有名詞

Italia f

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

   Synonym: Eotol

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     ⁊ hē [Pirrus] hæfde XX elpenda tō þǣm ġefeohte mid him, þe Rōmane ǣr na ne ne ġesawon: hē wæs sē forma mon þe hīe ǣrest on Italium brōhte.

     And he [Pyrrhus] had twenty elephants with him in battle, which the Romans had never seen before; he was the first man to bring them to Italy.

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Italia”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

語源

Via Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú, “land of bulls”), a name for the southwestern tip of the boot of Italy; usually assumed to be a cognate of vitulus (“calf”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɪˈta.li.a]
• (Classical Latin, poetic) IPA: [iːˈta.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [iˈtaː.li.a]
• The initial vowel was reportedly phonemically short in ordinary speech, but lengthened in dactylic verse on the Greek model due to the requirements of the meter. Compare ī̆talus, Ā̆rabia, Ā̆sia.

固有名詞

Ī̆talia f sg (genitive Ī̆taliae); first declension

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.361:

     “Ītaliam nōn sponte sequor.”

     “Italy is my goal not by choice”

2. the Italian people

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

関連する語

派生した語

There are no inherited descendants; by early Medieval times the word had likely become historic (although a quite popular pronunciation in Italy is /iˈtaʎ.ʎa/, often transcribed as "Itaglia" humorously — as it denotes an incorrect and stereotyped pronunciation).

参照

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