mesopotamiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Classical Latin Mesopotamia, from the Koine Greek Μεσοποταμία (Mesopotamía), a feminine substantive form of the adjective Μεσοποτάμιος (Mesopotámios, “between rivers”), from the Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “between”) + ποτᾰμός (potămós, “river”) + -ιος (-ios), so called because Mesopotamia is located between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Also used as a translation of the Biblical Hebrew נַהֲרַיִם (naharáyim), the dual form of נָהָר (nahár, “river”).

発音

• IPA: /mɛsəpəˈteɪmɪə/
• 韻: -eɪmiə

固有名詞

Mesopotamia

1. (historical) A geographic region in southwest Asia, spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, located in modern Iraq, eastern Syria, and southeast Turkey; the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man.
   • 1948 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “The Isle of Wight Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:

     It was purchased by the Isle of Wight Railway in 1882, and continued to work between Brading and Bembridge until 1917, when it was taken over by the War Department, and sent overseas for war service in Mesopotamia, whence it never returned. It survived until at least 1921, when it was observed on the quayside at Basra.

2. (historical) A former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 116 to 117 AD and again from 198 to 637 AD.
3. (historical) The Mandate for Mesopotamia, a League of Nations mandate from 1920 to 1932, entrusted to the United Kingdom, that was the precursor to the independent state of Iraq.
4. A geographic region in northeast Argentina, between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers.
5. (UK, slang, obsolete) The Eaton Square district of London, England.

派生語

参照

• (district of London): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

参考

• interfluve (having components with the same meaning as Mesopotamia, i.e., “between rivers”)

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [mɛ.sɔ.pɔˈta.mi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [me.s̬o.poˈtaː.mi.a]

固有名詞

Mesopotamia f sg (genitive Mesopotamiae); first declension

1. (historical) Mesopotamia (a geographic region in southwest Asia, spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, located in modern Iraq, eastern Syria, and southeast Turkey; the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man)
2. (historical) Mesopotamia (a former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 116 to 117 AD and again from 198 to 637 AD)

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

参考

• Irāca

参照

• “Mesopotamia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Mesopotamia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.