Morboviaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A facetious formation: morbus (“disease”, “sickness”, “malady”) +‎ -ōvia.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /morˈboː.u̯i.a/, [mɔrˈboːu̯iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /morˈbo.vi.a/, [morˈbɔːviä]

固有名詞

Morbōvia f sg (genitive Morbōviae); first declension

1. (vulgar, in execrations) the land of disease, sickdom
   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, Vespasianus 14:

     quidam ex officio admissionis simul expellens abire Morboviam iusserat

     one of those whose office it was to introduce people to the emperor, thrusting him out, bid him go to Morbonia (i.e., go to hell)

語形変化

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

派生語

• Morbōviam abeō (colloquial)

参照

• “Morbōvĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Morbovia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Morbouia” on page 1,133/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)