capital of Italy; seat of an ancient republic and empire; city of the Papacy, Old English, from Old French Rome, from Latin Roma, a word of uncertain origin. "The original Roma quadrata was the fortified enclosure on the Palatine hill," according to Tucker, who finds "no probability" in derivation from *sreu- "flow," and suggests the name is "most probably" from *urobsma (urbs, robur) and otherwise, "but less likely" from *urosma "hill" (compare Sanskrit varsman- "height, point," Lithuanian virsus "upper"). Another suggestion [Klein] is that it is from Etruscan (compare Rumon, former name of Tiber River).
Common in proverbs, such as Rome was not buylt in one daye (1540s); for when a man doth to Rome come, he must do as there is done (1590s); All roads alike conduct to Rome (1806).
例文
1. He had been sent to Rome by his employer.
彼はボスにローマに派遣された。
2.No sooner had he arrived in Rome than he was kidnapped.
彼はローマに着いたかと思うと誘拐された。
3.They believed ancient Greece and Rome were vital sources of learning.
彼らは古代ギリシャ?ローマを知識の重要な発祥地と考えている。
4.In 1973、when he lived in Rome 、his sixteen-year-old son was kidnapped.
1973年にローマに住んでいたとき、16歳の息子が誘拐された。
5.He spends his time flitting between Florence, Rome and Bologna.