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別の表記

• Esthonia (dated)

語源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Estonia. Other early Latin forms were Estia and Hestia, possibly derived from the tribal name Aestiī described by the Roman historian Tacitus in his Germania (ca. 98 AD). Displaced 中期英語 Ēstland, from 古期英語 Ēstland. Compare also Old Norse Æistland, Icelandic Eistland, German Estland (“Estonia”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɛˈstəʊ.nɪ.ə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɛˈstoʊ.ni.ə/, /ɛˈstoʊn.jə/
• 韻: -əʊniə
• ハイフネーション: Es‧to‧ni‧a, Es‧ton‧ia, E‧sto‧ni‧a, E‧ston‧ia

固有名詞

Estonia (plural Estonias)

1. A country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Official name: Republic of Estonia.
   • 2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points‎, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 233:

     “In the late 1930s, the Western democracies hesitated in the face of danger,” Prime Minister Siim Kallas of Estonia, a former Soviet republic, told me. “As a consequence, we fell under dictatorships and many people lost their lives. Action is sometimes necessary.”

   • 2016 June 23, Sarah Butrymowicz, “Estonia Is Becoming the New Finland”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 29 June 2016:

     While there is less income inequality in Estonia than in the United States—and, with 1.3 million people, the country is significantly smaller—the Baltic nation also has its share of cultural diversity.

派生語

• E-stonia

関連する語

• Estonian
• Estonian SSR

派生した語

• → Japanese: エストニア (Esutonia)
• → Telugu: ఎస్టోనియా (esṭōniyā)

参考

参照

アナグラム

• Osetian, anetiso, anteiso-, astonie

語源

Possibly derived from the tribal name Aestī described by the Roman historian Tacitus in his Germania (ca. 98 AD).

固有名詞

Estonia f sg (genitive Estoniae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

関連する語

• estonicus

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