enamorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• enamour (英国用法 spelling)
• inamor, inamour (both 古風な用法)

語源

From Middle English enamouren, a late back-formation from enamoured, itself a partial calque of Old French enamore, past participle of enamorer, enamourer, equivalent to prefix en- +‎ amor +‎ -er. See amour, and compare inamorato.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnamə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnæmɚ/
• 韻: -æmə(ɹ)

動詞

enamor (三人称単数 現在形 enamors, 現在分詞 enamoring, 過去形および過去分詞形 enamored) (米国用法 spelling)

1. (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" または "with") To cause to be in love.
   • 1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene I:

     Me-thought I was enamoured of an Asse.

   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:

     By Phœbus, here's a moſt neate fine ſtreete; is't not? I proteſt to thee, I am enamord of this ſtreete now, more then of halfe the ſtreetes of Rome, againe; tis ſo polite, and terſe; [...]

   • 1900, Leo Tolstoy, chapter 86, in William E. Smith, transl., The Awakening: The Resurrection:

     He was offered a chair in the university and a course abroad. But he hesitated. There was a girl of whom he became enamored, so he contemplated marriage and political activity.

2. (mostly in the passive) To captivate.
   • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:

     Passionately enamoured of this shadow of a dream.

反意語

• disenamour, disenamor

参考

• fall in love, fall out of love
• love, unlove

参照

• “enamor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Anmore, Armeno-, Mareno, Morane, Morena, Ramone, anomer, maenor, marone, menora, moaner, monera, morena, oarmen