뜻

1. 시작, 기원
2. 기초, 토대
3. 원소, 요소
4. (군사) 일류, 본부, 사령부

1. a beginning, an origin
2. a groundwork, a foundation
3. (in the plural) the elements, the first principles
4. (military, in the plural) the front ranks, camp headquarters

예문

• Est quaedam sanctitas, omnium quae sancte fiunt, sanctificatrix, ipsius incommutabilis verbi, per quod narratur illud principium, et ipsius principii, quod pari se verbo narrat, inseparabilis et indivisa communio. (Augustine, Saint, Epistulae. Selections., 55. (A. D. Epist. CCXXXII) Dominis Praedicabilibus et Dilectissimis Fratribus Madaurensibus, Quorum Per Fratrem Florentium Epistulam Accepi, Augustinus 5:3)

  (아우구스티누스, 편지들, 5:3)

• item si non terrestri cibo membra corporis alantur, deficient et ita a terreni principii mixtione erunt deserta. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER OCTAVUS, chapter preface 1:7)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 머리말 1:7)

• nam et Livius fre- quenter innovat principia, ut "incensa a Gallis urbe", ut "com- pletis consulibus", et Cicero in Verrinis, qui in frumentaria conciliavit auditorum animos iteratione principii, ut "omnes qui alterum iudices nullis impulsi inimicitiis". Pales autem, ut di- ximus, dea est pabuli: (Maurus Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Georgics of Vergil, book 3, commline 1 1:5)

  (마우루스 세르비우스 호노라투스, , 3권, 1:5)

• Principii autem nulla est origo; (M. Tullius Cicero, De Republica, Liber Sextus, chapter2 8 4:5)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 국가론, , 4:5)

• Et, quia iam tactum est quod omne ens [quod est] citra primum conservatur in esse virtute primi principii, ideo magis hoc declaretur. (Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius, Boethius De Dacia, DE MUNDI AETERNITATE, 11 66:6)

  (보이티우스, , , 66:6)

유의어 사전

1. Initium denotes the beginning in an abstract sense, as the mere point from which a thing begins, in opp. to exitus. Cic. Rosc. Com. 13, 39. Tusc. i. 38. Brut. 34. Sen. Ep. 9. N. Q. iii. 29; whereas principium denotes the beginning as a concrete notion, as that part of the whole which stands before the other parts in things, and goes before them in actions, in opp. to extremum. Cic. Cleunt. 4. Orat. 61, 204. Cæc. 15, 44. In initium the beginning is made only with reference to time; in principium the foundation also is laid with reference to space. The initium is pushed out of the way by that which follows; the principium serves as a basis for that which follows. The initia philosophiæ are the rudiments over which the scholar goes, and which are superseded by further studies; the principia are the fundamental principles, to which he must always recur. Initio usually means “at the beginning, but differently (or, not at all) afterwards;” whereas principio means from the very beginning, and so onwards. 2. Primordium is a more solemn and comprehensive term than principium, and supposes a whole of great extent, the beginning of which is so far removed that one can distinguish a merely apparent beginning from the actual and primeval source and origin. (iii. 163.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein