-eeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-ee

1. Added to transitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the object of that verb (i.e., to whom または to which an action is done).

   Synonym: -ed

   Antonym: -er

   ‎examine + ‎-ee → ‎examinee

   ‎interview + ‎-ee → ‎interviewee

   ‎train + ‎-ee → ‎trainee

   ‎employ + ‎-ee → ‎employee

2. Less commonly added to intransitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the subject of that verb (that is, who または that does an action).

   ‎absent + ‎-ee → ‎absentee

   ‎respond + ‎-ee → ‎respondee

   ‎stand + ‎-ee → ‎standee

3. (law) Used to form words meaning a person who is the other party to a contract or other transaction involving a person described by the corresponding word ending in -or.

   Antonym: -or

   ‎assign + ‎-ee → ‎assignee

   ‎legate + ‎-ee → ‎legatee

   ‎mortgage + ‎-ee → ‎mortgagee

4. (medicine) Used to form words meaning a person who has undergone a particular medical procedure.

   ‎laryngectomy + ‎-ee → ‎laryngectomee

5. Irregularly added to nouns to mean a person somehow associated with the object denoted by the noun.

   ‎barge + ‎-ee → ‎bargee

   ‎tender + ‎-ee → ‎tenderee

   ‎venereal + ‎-ee → ‎venerealee

派生語

語源 2

Perhaps a variation on -ie and -y^[1]

接尾辞

-ee

1. Used to form diminutives.

   ‎boot + ‎-ee → ‎bootee

   ‎goat + ‎-ee → ‎goatee

   ‎settle + ‎-ee → ‎settee

同意語

• (diminutive affix): mini-, micro-, nano-, -ette, -y, -icle/-cule/-ule/-ole

反意語

• (diminutive affix): super-, supra-, hyper-, ultra-, uber-, macro-, arch-, over-, mega-, giga-, -zilla, grand, great

派生語

• bootee
• goatee
• settee

接尾辞

-ee

1. (offensive, derogatory) Used in mimicking English as stereotypically spoken by the Chinese.
   • 1897, The Outlook, volume 56, page 1044:

     "No stealee. You no thinkee? Chinaman no thinkee stealee!" he said, earnestly.

   • 1938, Minnesota Journal of Education, volume 19, page 52:

     A Chinaman had a toothache, and phoned a dentist for an appointment. Doctor: "Two-thirty all right?" Chinaman: "Yes, tooth hurtee, all light. What time I come?"

関連する語

• no tickee, no washee

参照

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e.e/, [eɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.e/, [eː]

接尾辞

-ee

1. vocative masculine singular of -eus

名詞

ee (複数形 een)

1. (Scotland, Northern England and archaic) An eye.
   • 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering:

     […] and he never took his ee aff them, or said another word […]

参照

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

間投詞

ee

1. (Northern England) eh
   • 1975, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, The Werewolf and the Vampire

     Father advanced with outstretched hand and announced in a loud, very hearty voice: "Ee, I'm pleased to meet ye, lad. […]

   • 2008, Mavis Crawley, The Rolling Stone: Based on the True Story of My Life:

     'Ee by gum lass we've seen nought of thee this many a long year, thou's a sight for sore eyes,' he said planting a kiss firmly on Mum's cheek...

名詞

ee (複数形 ees)

1. (chemistry) Enantiomeric excess.

名詞

ee (複数形 ees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter E.
   • 1773, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged, October

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   • 2004 Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, p. 170

     I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

   • 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5

     ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

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