Italiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Italia

1. (rare) Synonym of Italy.
   • 1881, Oscar Wilde, “[Rosa Mystica.] Sonnet on approaching Italy.”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 39:

     I reached the Alps: the soul within me burned / Italia, my Italia, at thy name: / And when from out the mountain’s heart I came / And saw the land for which my life had yearned, / I laughed as one who some great prize had earned: […]

   • 1866 February, James Freeman Clarke, “Riviera di Ponente”, in The Atlantic Monthly‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 October 2022, page 202:

     There, through each long happy day, winding slowly on our way, / Travellers from across the ocean, toward Italia journeyed we,— / Each long day, that, richer, fairer, / Showed the charming Riviera.

   • 2014 February 20, Liza Donnelly, “Live-Drawing Women’s Figure Skating”, in The New Yorker‎, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 June 2025:

     Carolina Kostner of Italia does good.

   • 2016 December 11, Deb Amlen, quoting Mark McClain, “Communication Problem”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 December 2016:

     I’ve used language gimmicks in several puzzles (recently used answer/clue: TRE – “It’s over due in Italia”).

語源

From Latin Italia. Doublet of Eotol.

発音

• IPA: /ˈi.tɑ.li.ɑ/

固有名詞

Italia f

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

   Synonym: Eotol

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     ⁊ hē [Pirrus] hæfde XX elpenda tō þǣm ġefeohte mid him, þe Rōmane ǣr na ne ne ġesawon: hē wæs sē forma mon þe hīe ǣrest on Italium brōhte.

     And he [Pyrrhus] had twenty elephants with him in battle, which the Romans had never seen before; he was the first man to bring them to Italy.

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Italia”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

語源

Via Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú, “land of bulls”), a name for the southwestern tip of the boot of Italy; usually assumed to be a cognate of vitulus (“calf”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɪˈta.li.a]
• (Classical, poetic) IPA: [iːˈta.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [iˈtaː.li.a]

Note: the initial vowel was reportedly phonemically short, but lengthened in dactylic verse on the Greek model due to the requirements of the meter. Compare ī̆talus, Ā̆rabia, Ā̆sia.

固有名詞

Ī̆talia f sg (genitive Ī̆taliae); first declension

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.361:

     “Ītaliam nōn sponte sequor.”

     “Italy is my goal not by choice”

2. the Italian people

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

関連する語

派生した語

Note: there are no inherited descendants; by early Medieval times the word had likely become historic (even though a quite popular pronunciation in Italy is /iˈtaʎ.ʎa/, often transcribed as "Itaglia" humorously — as it denotes an incorrect and stereotyped pronunciation).

参照

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