Humanitas

Japanese: humanitas
Humanitas

…The oldest surviving example of this term dates back to the end of the 15th century in Italy. It is written as umanista in Italian (or humanista in Latin), and seems to have originated as a student term at universities at that time. It seems that professors of humanitas came to be called humanista, following the custom of calling professors of law (legge) leggista and professors of canon law (canone) canonista. Incidentally, humanitas was the most popular subject among university students at the time. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "humanitas" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その用語例として残っている最も古い資料は,15世紀末のイタリアにさかのぼられる。イタリア語でウマニスタumanista(あるいはラテン語でフマニスタhumanista)と記されるもので,当時の大学で学生用語として発生したもののようで,法学leggeの教授をleggista,教会法canoneの教授をcanonistaと呼ぶならわしに従って,フマニタス学humanitasの教授をhumanistaと呼ぶようになったらしい。ちなみにフマニタス学は当時の大学生たちには最も人気のある学課であった。…

※「humanitas」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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