ecumeneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē, “inhabited world”), from οἰκέω (oikéō, “I inhabit, dwell”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “residence”).

発音

• IPA: /iːˈkjuː.mə.ni/

名詞

ecumene (plural ecumenes)

1. (archaic, inherently emic) All known inhabited and civilized areas of the world.

   Antonyms: anecumene, wilderness, wilds, wastelands

   Near-synonym: civilization

   • 1969, Norton Ginsburg, edited by Joseph Kitagawa, Understanding Modern China‎, Quadrangle Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     Ninety-five per cent of the cultivated area of the country lies east of a line drawn from Tsitsihar (Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh) in northern Manchuria to K'un-ming in Yün-nan Province. This is eastern China, and within it is the Chinese ecumene.

2. (religion) Unification of Christianity and of Christendom.

使用する際の注意点

Sometimes functioning as a proper noun and capitalized, for the same reasons as with world/World, universe/Universe, and others.

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