Figenoiama

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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.
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