Hortensiusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Perhaps from the placename Horta +‎ -ensis, meaning "man from Horta." Or, possibly related to hortēnsis (“garden-grown”). Compare Hortalus.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [hɔrˈtẽː.si.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [orˈt̪ɛn.si.us]

固有名詞

Hortēnsius m sg (genitive Hortēnsiī or Hortēnsī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Quintus Hortensius Hortalus, a Roman orator
      • 1880, Henry James Nicoll, “Miscellaneous”, in Great Scholars. Buchanan, Bentley, Porson, Parr and Others., Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, page 204:

        He is described as having spoken for nearly an hour with great confidence in a highly declamatory tone, and with studied action, impressing all present who had ever heard of Cicero or Hortensius with the belief that he had worked himself up into the notion of being one or both of them for the occasion.

語形変化

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生語

• Hortēnsia
• Hortēnsiānus

形容詞

Hortēnsius (feminine Hortēnsia, neuter Hortēnsium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to the gens Hortensia.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

参照

• “Hortensius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Hortensius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.