amentiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /eɪˈmɛnʃə/, /əˈmɛnʃə/

名詞

amentia (countable and uncountable, plural amentias)

1. Mental impairment; state of being mentally handicapped.
   • 1922, W. G. Aitchison Robertson, Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology‎, 9th edition:

     Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.

派生語

関連する語

• dementia

アナグラム

• animate, aminate, metania, Anamite

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [aːˈmɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [aˈmɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]

名詞

āmentia f (genitive āmentiae); first declension

1. madness, insanity (the state of being out of one's senses)
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.25:

     Ad hanc tē āmentiam nātūra peperit; voluntās exercuit; fortūna servāvit.

     Nature has borne you for this madness; desire has trained [you]; fortune has preserved [you].

2. folly, stupidity, senselessness
3. malice, malignity

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• English: amentia
• Italian: amenza
• Russian: аме́нция f (améncija)

参照

• “amentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "amentia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “amentia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.