LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
proper noun · feminine

Figenoiama

Figenoiama f (indeclinable)
Ecclesiastical[fi.d͡ʒeˈnɔː.ja.ma]

Meaning

  1. New LatinfeminineindeclinableMount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)
    […]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.1589, Ioannes Petrus Maffeius, Historiarum Indicarum, volume XII, page 149:
    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 […]1597, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei Pars Secvnda, page 268:

Origins

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

Quick answers

What does Figenoiama mean in Latin?
Figenoiama, a proper noun, means “Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)”.