hamaxostichusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Coined in the 20th century from Ancient Greek ἅμαξα (hámaxa, “wagon”) + στίχος (stíkhos, “a row or file (of soldiers)”, “a line (of poetry)”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ha.makˈsos.ti.kʰus/, [hämäkˈs̠ɔs̠t̪ɪkʰʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /a.makˈsos.ti.kus/, [ämäkˈsɔst̪ikus]

名詞

hamaxostichus m (genitive hamaxostichī); second declension

1. (New Latin) a train
   • 1994, Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, Latinitas‎, page 318:

     Die II mensis Novembris ad oppidum Duranka, haud procul ab urbe Lycopoli (Asyut vel Assiut) in Superiore Aegypto positum, hamaxostichus, benzini exceptoria vehens, exorbitavit, quod via ferrata, magnis pluviis mollita, consederat.

     On the second of November, in the town of Duranka, not far from the city of Lycopolis (Asyut or Assiut) in Upper Egypt, a train carrying a tanker of gasoline derailed because the iron tracks, softened by heavy rains, had subsided.

   • 1996, George Capellanus with Peter Needham, Latin Can Be Fun‎, →ISBN, page 83:

     nonne hamaxostichus Birminghamiensis advenit?

     Did the Birmingham train not arrive?

   • 1999, Michael Bond, Ursus nomine Paddington [A Bear by the Name of Paddington]‎, page 83:

     dum loquitur ululatu machinae vectoriae iuxta crepidinem instructae sublato hamaxostichus movebatur.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

同意語

• tramen

参照

• treno in Carolus Egger (ed.), Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis, Vatican City: Libraria Editoria Vaticana, 1992