Adieu!とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 adieu also adew, adewe, adue, from Old French adieu (“to God”), a shortening of a Dieu vous comant (“I commend you to God”), from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Doublet of adios.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /əˈdju/, /əˈdu/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈdjuː/, /əˈdjɜː/
• (Canada) IPA: /əˈdjuː/, /əˈdjɜː/, /əˈd(j)ɪu̯/
  • (dialectal) IPA: /əˈd(j)ʌu̯/, [əˈd(j)ɛʊ̯]
• 韻: -uː
• Homophone: ado (North America)

間投詞

adieu

1. Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     BEATRICE. What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
     Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?
     Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!
     No glory lives behind the back of such.

   • 2022, “Untold story of Odias who conquered Land of Gold way before Cholas”, in OrrisaPost‎:

     The sails of fat-bellied ships go upward and flap signalling that time has come to bid adieu to the voyagers.

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

使用する際の注意点

Although the above pronunciations are usually used in American and RP English, neither is the standard pronunciation in French. /əˈdjɜː/ is used to approximate the French, while /əˈdju(ː)/ is a spelling pronunciation.

同意語

名詞

adieu (plural adieux or adieus)

1. A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.

   We bid our final adieus to our family, then boarded the ship, bound for America.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     As Noyes bade me adieu and rode off northward in his car I began to walk slowly toward the house.

   • 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:

     Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle:

     At the of his so remote, so near, 1884 summer Van, before leaving Ardis, was to make a visit of adieu to Ada's larvarium.

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

使用する際の注意点

Particularly used in phrase bid adieu.

派生語

参考

アナグラム

• Audie