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語源

Borrowed from Late Latin colophōn, from Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophṓn, “peak または finishing touch”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒləfən/

名詞

colophon (複数形 colophons)

1. (printing, publishing) In manuscripts (typically before the invention of printing), the note, usually at the end, left by the scribe who copied it, giving information on their exemplar, where and when the copy was made, and sometimes, their own name.
2. (printing) A printer's or publisher's identifying inscription or logo appearing at the front or end of a book, or the same appearing on the spine or dust jacket.
3. (by extension, Internet) A page on a website identifying the details of its creation, such as the author's name and the technologies used.
4. (obsolete) A finishing stroke or crowning touch.^[1]
   • 1635, John Swan, Speculum Mundi, page 427:

     He comes to the creation of man, and makes him the Colophon, or conclusion of all things else.

関連する語

• colophony (“rosin”)

参考

• coronis
• vignette

参照

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophṓn).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lo.pʰoːn/, [ˈkɔɫ̪ɔpʰoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lo.fon/, [ˈkɔːlofon]

名詞

colophōn m (genitive colophōnis); third declension

1. summit, peak

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

参考

• Colophon

参照

• “colophon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• colophon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• colophon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette