Figenoiama

See also: Figenojama

Latin

Alternative forms

• Figenojama

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 富士(ふじ)の山(やま) (Fuji no Yama, “Mount Fuji”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fi.d͡ʒeˈno.ja.ma/, [fid͡ʒeˈnɔːjämä]

Proper noun

Figenoiama f (indeclinable)

1. (New Latin) Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)
   • 1589, Ioannes Petrus Maffeius, Historiarum Indicarum, 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, 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, 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.