Brittoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

As Brittānia from the 1st century BCE, from Ancient Greek Βρεττανία (Brettanía), used by Diodorus, earlier νῆσος (nêsos) Πρεττανική (Prettanikḗ) or Βρεττανίαι (Brettaníai), used by Pytheas (4th century BCE) of the entire archipelago now known as the British Isles.

The Ancient Greek name is ultimately from a Celtic ethnonym, reconstructed as early Brythonic *Pritani, perhaps from a Proto-Celtic *Kʷritanī, *Kʷritenī, whence Welsh Prydyn (“Picts”), Middle Irish Cruithne, Cruithen-túaith (“Picts”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈbrɪt.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈbrit̪.t̪o]

名詞

Brittō m (genitive Brittōnis); third declension

1. An inhabitant of Britain, a Briton.
2. An inhabitant of Brittany, a Breton.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

• Britannia
• britannicus
• Britannus

派生した語

Because Brittany (“Little Britain”) was settled at the end of the Roman era by migrants from Britain, the original descendants of Brittō often have the meaning "an inhabitant of Brittany", with a later reborrowing from Classical Latin being used to form the word for "an inhabitant of Great Britain".

• Asturian: bretón
• Catalan: bretó, britó
• English: Breton, Briton
• Italian: bretone
• Occitan: breton
• Old French: breton
  • French: breton
• Old Galician-Portuguese: breton
  • Galician: bretón
  • Portuguese: bretão
• Romanian: breton
• Spanish: bretón
• → Proto-Brythonic: *Brɨθon (see there for further descendants)

参照

• “Britto or Brīto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Brītŏnes (Britt-)”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “228/3”
• “Brit(t)ō” on page 242/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)