MATUTINALとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /məˈtjuː.tɪ.nl̩, -ˈt͡ʃuː-/; /ˌmæt.jʊˈtaɪ.nl̩, -ˈt͡ʃʊ-/
• (General American) IPA: /məˈt(j)utɪnl̩/ [-ɾə-], /ˈmæt͡ʃ.əˌtaɪ.nl̩/
• 韻: -aɪnəl
• ハイフネーション: ma‧tut‧in‧al

形容詞

matutinal (not comparable) (formal or literary)

1. Of, occurring in, or relating to the morning, especially the early morning upon waking up.

   Synonyms: matinal, matitudinal, (chiefly US, rare) matutinary, matutine

   • 1874, Henry James, "Professor Fargo" in The Galaxy 18(2) (August 1874): 233–253.

     [A] young lady was introduced who had come to request him to raise a ghost—a resolute young lady, with several ringlets and a huge ancestral umbrella, whose matutinal appetite for the supernatural had not been quenched by the raw autumnal storm.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days:

     'Top 'o the mornin' to ye!' he called to Flory in a hearty matutinal voice, putting on an Irish accent.

2. Active in the morning; waking up early.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     Pen, putting on his hat, strode forth into the air, and almost over the body of the matutinal housemaid, who was rubbing the steps at the door.

   • 1866, Leo Hartley Grindon, Life, Its Nature, Varieties, & Phenomena, page 307:

     Certain other plants agree with certain other kinds of birds in being peculiarly matutinal. Go out as early as we will, we find the delicate white bells of the wild convolvulus in the dewy hedge, […] just as we are never too soon for the chaffinch, the blackbird, and the lark.

上位語

• crepuscular

等位語

• diurnal
• nocturnal
• vespertine

派生語

参照

Further reading

• matutinal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “matutinal”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “matutinal, adj.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• Atlantium