Alanusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀλᾱνός (Alānós), Ἀλᾱνοί (Alānoí). Perhaps renewed in Late Latin, especially in Spain in the meaning "dog breed", as a Migration Period Wanderwort, e.g. via Gothic *���������� (*alans).^[1]

別の表記

• Halānus, Alaunus

形容詞

Alānus (feminine Alāna, neuter Alānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to the Alan tribe

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

名詞

Alānus m (genitive Alānī, feminine Alāna); second declension

1. Alan (a member of the Alan tribe)
2. (Medieval Latin) alaunt (an extinct hunting dog breed related to the modern bulldog かつ mastiff)

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

• Alānia

派生した語

Note: none are likely to be directly inherited.

語源 2

Unclear origin. Perhaps Latinization of a Celtic name such as Old Breton Alan, belonging to several Breton saints and borrowed as English Alan and French Alain. This could be connected with Irish ail (“noble”), or else has been borrowed by Breton from the word under Etymology 1.^[2]

固有名詞

Alānus m (genitive Alānī, feminine Alana); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a male given name, equivalent to English Alan

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

参照

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*alanus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 289
• “Alanus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

• “Alanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Alanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Alanus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)