Greece
ギリシャ
解説 Definition
ギリシャ
A country in southeastern Europe, including a mainland area and many islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas. Athens is its capital, and the country is officially known as the Hellenic Republic.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
Greeceは南東ヨーロッパの国「ギリシャ」を指す固有名詞で、国名なので語頭を大文字にします。Greekは「ギリシャの」や「ギリシャ人、ギリシャ語」を表す別の形です。live in Greece、go to Greece、Greece has many islandsのように、国名の前に通常theを置かない形で覚えましょう。
Remember Greece as the country name and Greek as the related adjective, language name, and word for a person from the country. This contrast helps with sentence building: someone lives “in Greece,” but speaks “Greek” or studies “Greek history.” Greece is a proper noun, so it always begins with a capital letter. Unlike names such as the United States or the United Kingdom, it normally takes no definite article: say “My friend lives in Greece,” not “in the Greece.” Its many islands provide a useful mental scene for the example “Greece has many islands.”
例文
My friend lives in Greece.
友達はギリシャに住んでいます。
Greece has many islands.
ギリシャには島がたくさんあります。
Greece の類義語・関連語
Greece の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古フランス語のGreceを通じて、ラテン語のGraecia（ギリシャの地）から英語に入った国名です。
English Greece came through Old French Grece from Latin Graecia, the Roman name for the land of the Greeks. The related Latin forms Graecus and Graeci referred to a Greek person and the Greek people. These forms ultimately came from Greek Graikos, though the further history of that name is uncertain. Modern English preserves the country name in Greece and uses Greek for the corresponding adjective, language, and inhabitant.
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