Ad Infinitumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad īnfīnītum (“to infinity”).

発音

• enPR: ăd ĭn′fə-nī′təm
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
• (Received Pronunciation, Scotland) IPA: /ad ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
• (Canada) IPA: /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnʌɪ.təm/
• (General Australian) IPA: /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnɑɪ.təm/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ɛd ˌən.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ad ˌɪn.fəˈnʌi.təm/, /ad ˌɪn.fəˈnəi.təm/
• (India) IPA: /æɖ ˌin.fiˈnaj.ʈəm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌæd ɪnfɪˈnaɪtəm/
• 韻: -aɪtəm
• ハイフネーション: ad in‧fi‧ni‧tum

副詞

ad infinitum (not comparable)

1. Endlessly; for ever; never-endingly.
   • 1984, Milan Kundera, part I (Lightness and Weight), chapter I, in Michael Henry Heim, transl., The Unbearable Lightness of Being, London: Faber and Faber, translation of Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí, published 1985, →ISBN, page 3:

     The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ad infinitum.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈad ĩː.fiːˈniː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈad iɱ.fiˈniː.tum]

副詞

ad īnfīnītum (not comparable)

1. to or till infinity, to an unlimited extent, without restriction, everywhere, at pleasure

派生した語

• → German: ad infinitum (learned)
• → English: ad infinitum (learned)
• → Spanish: ad infinitum (learned)
• → Polish: ad infinitum (learned)
• → Portuguese: ad infinitum (learned)

参照

• “in-fīnītus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infīnītus ¶4”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “814/3”
• “infīnītus ¶2” on page 900/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)