battaliaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

battalia (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 battalias)

1. (obsolete, uncountable) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action.
   • 1651, Jeremy Taylor, “Sermon VI”, in The Sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor‎^[1], Philadelphia: H. Hooker, published 1845, pages 456–457:

     […] but we find, by a sad experience, that few questions are well stated; and when they are, they are not consented to; and when they are agreed on by both sides that they are well stated, it is nothing else but a drawing up the armies in battalia with great skill and discipline; the next thing they do is, they thrust their swords into one another's sides.

   • 1695, William Congreve, “To the King on the taking of Namur”, in A Complete Edition of the British Poets‎^[2], volume 7, London: John & Arthur Arch, published 1795, stanza IV, page 537:

     Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread, / Each in battalia rang'd, and shining arms array'd

2. (obsolete, countable) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body of the army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear.
   • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, act 5, scene 3, line 11:

     Why, our battalia trebles that account

参考

• battalia pie

Latin

名詞

battālia f or n pl (Late Latin)

1. Alternative form of battuālia
   • c. 580 CE, Cassiodorus, De Orthographia 7.178.4:

     Bat in uno tantum repperi nomine generis neutri pluraliter enuntiatio, id est battualia, quae vulgo battalia dicuntur (var. quod vulgo battalia dicitur), quae b mutam habere cognovimus.

語形変化

Only attested in the nominative, either as a feminine singular or neuter plural, depending on the reading. See the quotation above.

派生した語

See battuālia.

参照

• “battuālia” in volume 2, column 1788, line 75 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present