copiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkoː.pi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkɔː.pi.a]

名詞

cōpia f (genitive cōpiae); first declension

1. supply, abundance, copiousness, wealth, riches

   Synonyms: abundantia, affluentia, ūbertās, fertilitās, ūber, magnitūdō

   Antonyms: dēficientia, cāritās, inopia

   Quod cupiō mēcum est. Inopem mē cōpia fēcit.

   What I desire is with me: Abundance made me destitute.

2. plenty, fulness, multitude

   Synonyms: mōlēs, nūbēs, multitūdō

3. opportunity, facilities (the means of doing something)

   Synonyms: aditus, opportūnitās, occāsiō, facultās

4. (in the plural) troops, forces, resources

   Synonyms: turma, exercitus, caterva, manus

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.6:

     Caesar partītīs cōpiīs cum Gāiō Fabiō lēgātō et Mārcō Crassō quaestōre celeriterque effectīs pontibus adit tripertītō, aedificia vīcōsque incendit, magnō pecoris atque hominum numerō potītur.

     Caesar, having divided his forces with C. Fabius, his lieutenant, and M. Crassus his questor, and having hastily constructed some bridges, enters their country in three divisions, burns their houses and villages, and gains possession of a large number of cattle and men.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• cōpiōsus
• cornūcōpia

派生した語

参照

• “copia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “copia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "copia", 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)
• “copia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a man the opportunity of doing a thing: potestatem, copiam alicui dare, facere with Gen. gerund.
    
  • to be rich, wealthy: divitiis, copiis abundare
    
  • I put myself at your disposal as regards advice: consilii mei copiam facio tibi
    
  • I have exhausted all my material: copiam quam potui persecutus sum
    
  • to provide some one with a livelihood: omnes ad vitam copias suppeditare alicui
    
  • his means suffice to defray daily expenses: copiae cotidianis sumptibus suppetunt (vid. sect. IV. 2, note suppeditare...)
    
  • to give audience to some one: colloquendi copiam facere, dare
    
  • to call up troops from all sides: evocare undique copias
    
  • to join forces with some one: copias (arma) cum aliquo iungere or se cum aliquo iungere
    
  • to concentrate troops: conducere, contrahere copias
    
  • to concentrate all the troops at one point: cogere omnes copias in unum locum
    
  • to equip an army, troops: parare exercitum, copias
    
  • a large force, many troops: magnae copiae (not multae)
    
  • a small force: exiguae copiae (Fam. 3. 3. 2)
    
  • to keep the troops in camp: copias castris continere
    
  • to offer battle to the enemy: potestatem, copiam pugnandi hostibus facere
    
  • to draw up forces in battle-order: aciem (copias, exercitum) instruere or in acie constituere
    
  • to rout the enemy's forces: fundere hostium copias
    
  • to absolutely annihilate the enemy: hostium copias occidione occīdere (Liv. 2. 51)
    
  • (ambiguous) to choose one from a large number of instances: ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere)
    
  • (ambiguous) a full and copious style of speech: ubertas (not divitiae) et copia orationis
    
  • (ambiguous) richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
    
  • (ambiguous) abundance of material: materia rerum et copia uberrima
    
  • (ambiguous) profusion of words: copia, ubertas verborum
    
  • (ambiguous) to be abandoned to a life of excess: omnium rerum copia diffluere
    
  • (ambiguous) money is plentiful at 6 per cent: semissibus magna copia est
    
  • (ambiguous) want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: inopia (opp. copia) rei frumentariae
    
• “copia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• copia in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “copia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “copia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press