proper noun · feminine
Figenoiama
Figenoiama f (indeclinable)
Ecclesiastical[fi.d͡ʒeˈnɔː.ja.ma]
Meaning
- 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”).