Figenoiama
See also: Figenojama
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 富士の山 (Fuji no Yama, “Mount Fuji”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fi.ɡeˈnoi̯.i̯a.ma/, [fɪɡɛˈnɔi̯ːämä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fi.d͡ʒeˈno.ja.ma/, [fid͡ʒeˈnɔːjämä]
Proper noun edit
Figenoiama f (indeclinable)
- (New Latin) Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)
- 1589, Ioannes Petrus Maffeius, Historiarum Indicarum[1], volume XII, page 149:
- […] alter Figenoiama nomine, Leucarum aliquot aſcenſu trans nubes attolitur.
- […] the other, Mount Fuji by name, is elevated above the clouds by an ascent of some leagues.
- 1597, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei Pars Secvnda[2], page 268:
- Inter montes duo cæteris præſtant, quorum vnus ſpectatæ altitudinis eſt, adeò vt etiam ipſas nubes magno interuallo ſuperet, qui ipſis Figenoiama vocatur […]
- Among the mountains two of them stand out, one of which is of considerable height, so much so that it surmounts even the clouds themselves at a great distance, which is called Mount Fuji […]
- 1628, Iohannes Ludovicus Gotofredus, Archontologia Cosmica[3], page 202:
- […] alter Figenoiama dictus tantæ altitudinis eſt, vt etiam ipſas nubes altiſſimo interuallo ſuperet.
- […] the other, called Mount Fuji, is of such height, that it surmounts even the clouds themselves at a great distance.