Laとは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-lā

1. ablative feminine singular of -lus

接尾辞

-lā

1. ablative feminine singular of -lus

アナグラム

• & al., -al, AL, Al, a.l., al, al-

接頭辞

La- f

1. (US, African-American Vernacular, anthroponymy) Used in African-American female given names.

   ‎La- + ‎Keisha → ‎Lakeisha

   ‎La- + ‎Toya → ‎Latoya

   ‎La- + ‎Tanya → ‎LaTanya

等位語

• Le- (m - male equivalent)
• De- (m または f - unisex equivalent)

参考

• French: la (French feminine article) (female "the")
• Spanish: la (Spanish feminine article) (female "the")

アナグラム

• & al., -al, AL, Al, a.l., al, al-

アナグラム

• al, , Al, AL

語源 1

From Latin labii, from the first word of the sixth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

別の表記

• lah

名詞

la (複数形 las)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas.

等位語

• (music): do, re, mi, fa, sol, ti

語源 2

Sound used to form meaningless song refrains. Of imitative origin. Compare 古期英語 lā (a common exclamation), Ancient Greek λαλαγε (lalage, “babble”), German lallen (“to babble”).

間投詞

la

1. Represents the sound of music or singing.

   "La la la la, I can't hear you!" Jimmy said, sticking his fingers in his ears.

   • 2019, Keira Brown, Between the Lines: Never in Plain Sight:

     The only part Lucy had to sing was the interlude, which was a bunch of la la la's, and the last verse of the song, which was only four lines, and the chorus, which was just as short.

語源 3

From Middle English la, from 古期英語 lā. More at lo.

別の表記

• law

間投詞

la

1. (obsolete) Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
2. (archaic) Expressing surprise, anger. etc.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     La, ma'am, what doth your la'ship think? the girl that your la'ship saw at church on Sunday, whom you thought so handsome; though you would not have thought her so handsome neither, if you had seen her nearer, but to be sure she hath been carried before the justice for being big with child.

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 2, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     “Oh, la! here come the Richardsons. I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them any longer.”

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     "La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with us. We're not men. We can't fight you," Miss Jane said.

語源 4

From French la, Italian la.

形容詞

la (not comparable)

1. Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
   • 2007 November 22, Kate Carter, The Guardian:

     Following lukewarm on the heels of an article a few weeks ago, where (I paraphrase due to having filed the relevant copy in the recycling bin) Victoria Beckham made a "well-meaning" remark that the other Spice Girls might want to lose a few pounds, we now have a new incidence of La Beckham's scintillating and entirely well-meaning humour.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 232:

     By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory.

語源 5

Possibly a shortened form of lad.

名詞

la (複数形 las)

1. (Liverpool) lad, kid

関連する語

• lid (rhyming slang for kid)

語源 6

From Cantonese 啦 (laa¹). Doublet of lah.

発音

• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /lɑː˥/

不変化詞

la (Hong Kong, colloquial)

1. Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.

   Sleep la! ― [You should] go to bed.

   Eat shit la you! ― You're going to hell!

2. Used to tone down comments.

   ok la ― not bad; good enough

参考

• lor, wor

アナグラム

• & al., -al, AL, Al, a.l., al, al-

語源

Probably Onomatopoeic. Compare Polish ła. (This etymology is missing または incomplete. Please add to it, または discuss it at the 語源 scriptorium.)

発音

• IPA^(key): /lɑː/

間投詞

lā

1. lo!, oh!, ah!

   Lā! næddrena cyn.

   Oh! generation of vipers.

2. Enclitic particle used to emphasise interrogation, exclamation, entreaty, affirmation, negation

   Ðā cwæþ ic hwæt is ðæt lā?

   then said I 'what then is that?'