Fourとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English four, from 古期英語 fēower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from previous pre-Grimm *petwṓr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of *kʷetwóres. Doublet of cuatro and quatre.

Cognates include West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch and German vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Danish fire, Swedish fyra, Gothic ������������ (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Latin quattuor (whence Spanish cuatro, French quatre), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), Irish ceathair, Armenian չորս (čʿors), Lithuanian keturi, Albanian katër, Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).

発音

• (英国発音)
  • (Received 発音) enPR: fô, IPA^(key): /fɔː/
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/
• (米国発音)
  • (General American) enPR: fôr, IPA^(key): /fɔɹ/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: fōr, IPA^(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /foə/
  • (with horse–hoarse merger)
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /foː/
• (non-rhotic, dough-door merger, AAVE) IPA^(key): /foʊ/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: fore, foure
• Homophone: for (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
• Homophone: faugh (in non-rhotic dialects with the horse-hoarse merger)
• 異形同音異義語: foe, faux (in non-rhotic dialects with the dough-door merger)

数詞

four

1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)

   There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

派生語

関連する語

• fourth

派生した語

参考

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
• Last: three, 3
• Next: five, 5

名詞

four (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fours)

1. (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
2. (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.

   Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.

3. Four o'clock.
   • 1828, Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828-9, Comprising a Directory of the Merchants, Bankers, Professional Gentleman [...] in the Counties of Cheshire, Cumberland [...]‎^[3], London, Manchester: J. Pigot & Co., page 767:

     Letters to Sheffield are despatched every morning at six, and arrive every afternoon at ten minutes past four.

   • 1865, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IX, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume VI, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     Frederick, I presume, at this late hour of four, may be snatching a morsel of dinner; […]

   • 1972, George Carroll Dyer, chapter XVII, in The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner‎^[4], volume 2, U.S. Marine Corps, →OL, page 657:

     The larger ships picked up the low lying atoll on their radar about four in the morning at distances from 16 to 26 miles.

4. A person who is four years old.

   I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.

5. (cricket, countable) An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
6. (basketball, countable) A power forward.
7. (rowing) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
   1. The shell itself.

      The team bought a new four last season.

   2. The crew rowing in a four boat.

      Our four won both races.

   3. (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.

      We got third place in the varsity four.

8. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section IV:

     I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.

派生語

• (numeral): rouf (back スラング)

参考

Pages starting with “four”.

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack, knave	queen	king	joker

アナグラム

• Rufo, furo, rouf, rufo-, uORF