initiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɪˈnɪ.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [iˈnit.t͡si.um]

名詞

initium n (genitive initiī or initī); second declension

1. beginning, start

   Synonyms: prīncipium, exordium, limen, orīgō, rudīmentum, prīmōrdium

   Antonym: fīnis

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:

     Eorum una pars, quam Gallos obtinere dictum est, initium capit a flumine Rhodano

     Another part of the country, which has already been said to contain the Gauls, takes its origin by the Rhone river.

2. a going in, entrance

   Synonyms: ingressus, limen, iānua, ingressiō, foris, porta, vestibulum

   Antonym: abitus

3. (in the plural) rites, mysteries
4. initiative, first move

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生語

• initialis
• initiō

派生した語

参照

• “initium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “initium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “initium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to begin with a thing: initium capere; incipere ab aliqua re
    
  • to commence a thing: initium facere, ducere, sumere (alicuius rei)
    
  • to start from small beginnings: ab exiguis initiis proficisci
    
  • to begin to speak: initium dicendi facere
    
  • to commence hostilities: bellum incipere, belli initium facere (B. G. 7. 1. 5)
    
  • (ambiguous) the elements: elementa; initia or principia rerum
    
  • (ambiguous) at the beginning of the year: initio anni, ineunte anno