LIQUORとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English licour, from Anglo-Norman licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity, liquidness, a fluid, a liquid”), from liquere (“to be fluid または liquid”); see liquid. Doublet of liqueur.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪk.ə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪk.ɚ/
• Homophone: licker
• 韻: -ɪkə(ɹ)

名詞

liquor (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 liquors)

1. (obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     Thus Water also, or any other Liquor, included in a convenient vessel, by being warmed, manifestly expands it self with a very great violence […]

   • 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:

     Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
     I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
     "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
     Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."

2. (obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
3. A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (または both).

   Synonyms: stock, (米国用法 English) pot liquor, broth, bouillon

4. (UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
5. (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.

   Synonyms: (英国用法 かつ Australasian English) spirits, hard liquor, hard drink, strong drink

   • 1879, Chas. McArmor, The New Handbook of Vienna […] ‎^[1], 2nd edition, Otto Maass, page 106:

     Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors.

6. In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
7. A liquid in which something has been steeped.

派生語

関連する語

動詞

liquor (三人称単数 現在形 liquors, 現在分詞 liquoring, 過去形および過去分詞形 liquored)

1. (intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
2. (transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To grease.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     Liquor fishermen's boots.

   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored

派生語

• liquored up

参照

• “liquor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “liquor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Latin

語源 1

From liqueō (“I am liquid, fluid”) +‎ -or.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.kʷor/, [ˈlʲɪkʷɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]

名詞

liquor m (genitive liquōris); third declension

1. fluidity, liquidity
2. a liquid, fluid

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

派生した語

• Catalan: licor
• French: liqueur
• → Romanian: licoare
• Italian: liquore
• Occitan: liquor
• Russian: ликёр (likjór)
• Sicilian: licori m
• Spanish: licor m

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.kʷor/, [ˈlʲiːkʷɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]

動詞

līquor (present infinitive līquī); third conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stem

1. (intransitive) I am fluid or liquid
2. (intransitive) I flow
3. (intransitive) I melt, dissolve

Conjugation

語源 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.kʷor/, [ˈlʲɪkʷɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.kwor/, [ˈliːkwor]

動詞

liquor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of liquō

参照

• “līquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lĭquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “liquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• liquor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “liquor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.