ſomewhatの英語

語源

some +‎ what

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmwɒt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmwʌt/
• ハイフネーション: some‧what
• 韻: -ʌt

副詞

somewhat (not comparable)

1. (degree) To a limited extent or degree.

   The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.

   The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.

参考

• slightly

代名詞

somewhat

1. (archaic) Something.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:

     Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, / As if in minde he somewhat had to say […].

   • a. 1716, Robert Trail, sermon on the Lord's Prayer

     But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     Mr Jones had somewhat about him, which, though I think writers are not thoroughly agreed in its name, doth certainly inhabit some human breasts […]

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.

名詞

somewhat (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 somewhats)

1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
   • 1682, Nehemiah Grew, Anatomy of Plants

     its taste, which is plainly acid, and somewhat rough

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:

     Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292: