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語源

Via Latin Thōth from Ancient Greek Θώθ (Thṓth), from Egyptian ḏḥwtj (“Thoth”, literally “he who is like the ibis”). Compare Coptic Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ (Thōout).

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: θōθʹ, IPA: /ˈθəʊθ/
• (General American) enPR: θōθʹ, IPA: /ˈθoʊθ/
• 韻: -əʊθ

固有名詞

Thoth

1. (Egyptian mythology) The ancient Egyptian moon god of wisdom, learning, and magic, usually depicted as an ibis or baboon.
2. The first month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the first month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Thoth has been in roughly September.
   • 1762, John Kennedy, A Complete System of Astronomical Chronology Unfolding the Scriptures:

     To November 1 add 7, and the ſum will ſhew, that the ſeventh day of Thoth fell, that year, upon the eighth day of November.

   • 1842, Frederick Portal, “Correspondence—Swedenborg and Champollion”, in The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, Etc, volume 21:

     Now the month of Thoth was the first of the Egyptian year, because this month begins a new period.

   • 1989, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, volume 56:

     In that case this quadrimenstruum would be the first one of the Egyptian year, Thoth, Phaophi, Hathyr, Choeac.

参考

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈtʰoːtʰ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈt̪ɔt̪]

固有名詞

Thōth m (indeclinable)

1. Thoth

語形変化

Indeclinable noun, singular only.

参照

• “Thoth”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Thoth”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Thoth in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung