sextansとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin sextāns, from sex (“six”).

名詞

sextans (plural sextantes)

1. (Ancient Rome) A Roman coin worth one sixth of an as.

参照

• “sextans”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源

By surface analysis, sex (“six”) +‎ -āns. According to the linguist Albio Cassio, it is more probably a calque of Ancient Greek ἑξᾶς (hexâs), though the Greek forms are more often explained as borrowings from the Latin.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈsɛk.stãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈsɛk.stans]

名詞

sextāns m (genitive sextantis); third declension

1. a sixth part of an as, (in particular —)
   1. (a coin)
   2. (a weight)
   3. the sixth part of a juger (a measure of land)
   4. the sixth part of a sextarius (a measure of liquid)
   5. (a measure of length)
2. (mathematics) the sixth part of the number six (as of the numerus perfectus, in other words) unity, one
3. (Later Latin) a sextant (nautical instrument)

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

関連する語

• sextānī
• sextārius
• dēxtāns (“five-sixths”)

派生語

派生した語

• Russian: секстан (sekstan), секстант (sekstant)

参考

• octāns
• quadrāns

参照

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