Constantinopolisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Constantinopolis, from Latin Cōnstantīnopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνστᾰντῑνούπολῐς (Kōnstăntīnoúpolĭs).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnɒ.pə.lɪs/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnɑ.pə.lɪs/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnɑ.pə.ləs/
• 韻: -ɒpəlɪs
• ハイフネーション: Con‧stan‧ti‧no‧po‧lis

固有名詞

Constantinopolis

1. Alternative form of Constantinople: (historical) The former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that
   • 1938, H. P. Lovecraft, “Ibid”, in The O-Wash-Ta-Nong: An Amateur Journal, volume 3, number 1, page 11:

     About 541 he removed to Constantinopolis, where he received every mark of imperial favour both from Justinianus and Justinus the Second.

   • 1999, Suraiya Faroqhi, Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources, page 124:

     Thus the Roman emperor Severus had destroyed the Hellenistic city; as to the emperor Constantine, he tore down pagan monuments to rebuild Byzantium as Constantinopolis, the capital of a Christian empire.

   • 2014, Sarah Bassett, “Collecting and the Creation of History”, in Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World, page 154:

     Like the monuments culled from the cities and sanctuaries of the Roman world, the relics of Constantinopolis created a history for the city both through individual identity and their status as appropriated objects.

   • 2015, Lucy Grig, “Competing Capitals”, in Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, page 43:

     Nonetheless, in the fourth century, Roma began to appear in a new guise, in a whole series of official images from coins to consular diptychs, more or less twinned with her upstart “sister”, Constantinopolis.

固有名詞

Constantinopolis m

1. Constantinople/Istanbul

語源

From Koine Greek Κωνστᾰντῑνούπολῐς (Kōnstăntīnoúpolĭs, “city of Constantine”), from Ancient Greek πόλῐς (pólĭs, “city”) + Κωνστᾰντῑ́νου (Kōnstăntī́nou, “of Constantine”), a name borrowed from Latin Cōnstantīnus, from cōnstāns (“constant, steadfast”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kõː.stan.tiːˈnɔ.pɔ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kon.st̪an̪.t̪iˈnɔː.po.lis]

固有名詞

Cōnstantīnopolis f sg (genitive Cōnstantīnopolis or Cōnstantīnopoleos or Cōnstantīnopolios); third declension

1. (Late Latin) Constantinople (the former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that)

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem, partially Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

同意語

• Bȳzantium
• Nova Rōma

派生した語

• → French: Constantinople
• → Korean: 콘스탄티노폴리스 (konseutantinopolliseu)

参照

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