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語源

As a mythological beast, a variant of earlier Chimera under influence from Latin Chimaera. As a placename, directly from Latin Chimaera.

固有名詞

Chimaera

1. (dated) Alternative form of Chimera
   • 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184:

     CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly...

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira, “fire-breathing Lycian monster, fire-spewing Lycian または Cilician mountain”), from χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʰiˈmae̯.ra/, [kʰɪˈmäe̯rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kiˈme.ra/, [kiˈmɛːrä]

固有名詞

Chimaera f sg (genitive Chimaerae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Chimera
2. (geography) Mount Chimera in Cilicia or Lycia
3. (geographic, historical) A former name of Himara, Albania
4. (geographic, historical) A former name of the Ceraunian Mountains in Albania

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.