vicesimationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Probably formed by the suffixation of the Latin vīcēsimus (“twentieth”) with the English -ation on the pattern of decimation, but compare the Latin vīcēsimātiō (“a killing of every twentieth man”); the spelling vigesimation is an alteration of vicesimation under the influence of vigesimal.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: vī'sēsĭmāʹshən, vĭ'sĭsĭmāʹshən, IPA^(key): /ˌvaɪsiːsɪˈmeɪʃən/, /ˌvɪsɪsɪˈmeɪʃən/

名詞

vicesimation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 vicesimations)

1. (まれに) The destruction of one-twentieth of something; especially, the killing or putting to death of every twentieth person, especially by lot.
   • 1834, Samuel Hibbert et alii, History of the Foundations in Manchester of Chirst’s College, Chetham’s Hospital, and the Free Grammar School, volume 2, page 124

     The common prisoners…were ordered to cast lots for every twentieth man to be tried, as a sort of vicesimation.

   • 1901, Joseph Fitzgerald, Word and Phrase: True and False Use in English, page 273

     We must change the numerator of our fraction.…If one must have the precise fractional term in “ation,” and the loss is one in five, let him coin the word quintation…if one in twenty, vicesimation.

等位語

• (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part): quintation (1/5), septimation (1/7), decimation (1/10), tricesimation (1/30), centesimation (1/100)