Quoniamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

quoniam

1. The vulva.
   • c. 1380-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologe of the Wyves Tale of Bathe, ll. 607–8 (ed. Skeat):

     And trewely, as myne housbondes toldë me,
     I had the bestë quoniam mightë be.

     And truely, as my husband told me, I had the best vulva might be.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkʷo.ni.am/, [ˈkʷɔniä̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkwo.ni.am/, [ˈkwɔːniäm]

接続詞

quoniam (+ ind)

1. since, forasmuch, inasmuch as, now that
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:18

     Quoniam fīliī sānctōrum sumus et vītam illam expectāmus quam Deus datūrus est hīs quī fidem suam numquam mūtant ab eō.

     For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never change their faith from him.

派生した語

• → Catalan: quòniam (learned)

Further reading

• “quoniam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quoniam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quoniam 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)
• quoniam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.