Asiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Asia, Asie, from Old French Asie and Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Ăsĭ́ā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /⁠aswijaː⁠/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /⁠Aššuwa⁠/, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin. Potentially from an Aegean language family substrate or Akkadian. Possibly a doublet of Assuwa.

発音

• IPA: /ˈeɪ.ʒə/, (dated) /ˈeɪ.ʃə/
• (India) IPA: /ˈeː.ʃja/, /ˈeɪ.ʃja/
• 韻: -eɪʒə, -eɪʃə

固有名詞

Asia (countable and uncountable, plural Asias)

1. The largest continent, located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
   • 1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 4:

     All Aſia, which the Ancients divide into Aſia the Great and Aſia the Leſs, modern Computors part into five Diviſions, Perſia, the Turkiſh Empire, India, (to which they caſt in the adjacent Iſles) Tartary, and China.

   • 2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN‎:

     “A shift from jus soli to jus sanguinis has been witnessed in Asia in the course of the twentieth century,” wrote Olivier Vonk at the Maastricht Centre in a 2017 paper.

2. (Greek mythology) A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
3. (Greek mythology) An epithet of Athena.
4. (Greek mythology) One of the Nereids.
5. (astronomy) 67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.
6. A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.
   • 1994, Blake Nelson, Girl: A Novel, Simon&Schuster, →ISBN, page 81:

     And Scott Haskell started going out with this sophomore girl called Asia, who was this rich girl from Weston Heights.

7. (historical) An ancient province of the Roman Empire in western Anatolia, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD.

同意語

• (continent) Asia Major;
• (Roman province) Phrygia, Roman Asia

Meronyms

• Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia

Holonyms

• (continent): Eurasia, Afro-Eurasia, Earth

派生語

参考

アナグラム

• Aias, AIAs, aias, IaaS, Saia

固有名詞

Asia ?

1. Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Asia is befangen mid...þǣm gārseċġe sūþan ⁊ norþan ⁊ eastan...

     Asia is surrounded by...the southern and northern and eastern sea...

2. (historical) Asia (an ancient province of the Roman Empire in western Anatolia, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD)

使用する際の注意点

This noun is declined using Latinate endings rather than Old English endings.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈaː.si.a], [ˈa.si.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː.s̬i.a]

Note: as in Greek, the first vowel can be found lengthened as a poetic license; compare Ā̆rabia, Ī̆talia.

固有名詞

Ā̆sia f sg (genitive Ā̆siae); first declension

1. Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)
2. Asia (an ancient province of the Roman Empire in western Anatolia, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD)

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

関連する語

• asiānus
• asiāticus
• asius

派生した語

• → Middle English: Asia, Asie (also via Old French)
  • English: Asia
• → Old French: Asie
  • French: Asie

参照

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