sestertiusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin sēstertius (“that is two-and-a-half”), from sēmis (“half”) + tertius (“third”), in which “third” refers to the third as: the sestertius was worth two full asses and half of a third.

名詞

sestertius (plural sestertii)

1. (historical numismatics) A large bronze or (rarely) small silver coin minted during the Roman Republic and Empire, valued at two and a half asses (a quarter of a denarius).

   Synonym: sesterce

語源

From sēmis (“half”) + tertius (“third”), due to its value in asses.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [seːsˈtɛr.ti.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [sesˈt̪ɛr.t̪͡s̪i.us]

名詞

sēstertius m (genitive sēstertiī or sēstertī); second declension

1. sesterce (small coin worth 2 and a half asses, later 4 asses)
2. two and a half (only in certain phrases)

使用する際の注意点

Four sesterces were equal to one denarius, and a hundred sesterces to one aureus. Although there were larger coins in the empire, many large prices were calculated in sesterces instead.

When a distributive numeral is used in front of the neuter plural sēstertia, it is read as that many thousands of sesterces. When a numeral adverb (e.g. deciens) is used in front of the genitive plural sēstertium, it is read as that many hundred thousands of sesterces.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

同意語

• nummus

派生した語

Feminine variant:

Modern borrowings:

参照

• “sestertius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sestertius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sestertius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sestertius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sestertius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin