M$とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Contraction of am.

接尾辞

-'m

1. Am, used especially in I'm.
   • 2008, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes, Bantam (→ISBN), page 158:

     “So how'm I not good?”

2. (dialectal) Various forms of be.
   • 1962, John Le Carre, A Murder of Quality:

     "He'm a bad one. Ooh, he'm a bad one, Mister," and she laughed softly. "I seed 'im flying, riding on the wind," she laughed again, "and the moon be'ind 'im, lightin' up the way. They'm close as sisters, moon and Devil."

   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright 2016, page 180:

     “Ah, it's a wonder we’m got two sticks to us name, with all that plunder what youm 'ad already.”

語源 2

Contraction of madam/ma'am.

接尾辞

-'m

1. Represents the word madam or ma'am when used as a formal address of a female; as in yes'm and no'm.

固有名詞

M'. m (indeclinable)

1. Praenominal abbreviation of Manius.

使用する際の注意点

The use of M followed by a diacritic mark is a convention used in many modern printed sources to represent the symbol ꟿ used in the Roman originals.

同意語

• ꟿ.

参照

• Bruun, Christer, "Roman Onomastics" p.799 in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy (Oxford University Press, 2015) →ISBN
• Gordon, Arthur Ernest, Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy p.21 fn.65 (University of California Press, 1983) →ISBN
• Sandys, John Edwin, Latin Epigraphy: An Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions p.51 (CUP Archive, 1927)

名詞

M. (複数形 Messrs. または MM.)^[1]

1. Alternative form of M (“Monsieur”).
   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC, page 69:

     The next morning I delivered my letters of introduction, and paid a visit to some of the principal professors, and among others to M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy.

   • 1823, Adam Hodgson, A Letter to M. Jean-Baptiste Say: On the Comparative Expense of Free and Slave Labour:

   • 1885, The Era Almanack and Annual, page 79:

     Hérodiade, opera, in four acts, libretto by MM. Paul Milliet and Gremont, music by M. Jules Massenet, February 1.

参照

• “M.”, in Collins English Dictionary: “M. in British English / ABBREVIATION FOR […] Monsieur”.

語源 2

From Ms., Mrs., Mr., Miss, Mister, Mistress, Master, Magistrate, Missus.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɛm/

名詞

M.

1. (rare) A gender-neutral honorific, comparable to Mx., used instead of Mr., Mrs., etc.
   • 1982 July 10, Mx. John Eldridge (username "floyd!jce"), More words and sex, net.nlang:

     while we're at it, let's get rid of all this Miss/Mrs/Mr/Ms crap. It wasn't much of a step to go from Miss/Mrs to Ms; after all, the issue should be that gender is unimportant. How about one generic title for everyone? For instance, M. Smith, M. Jones. […]

   • 1983 September 27, Martin Taylor, Miss/Mrs/Ms, net.women:

     I like the idea of just "M. Smith". Who cares whether the person is male or female if the matters under discussion are just business? If this is confusable with "Malcolm Smith" or "Marylin Smith", why not use "Mx. Smith" instead. […]

語源 3

Abbreviation

名詞

M.

1. Abbreviation of model.

   Coordinate terms: M-, M

参照

Latin

固有名詞

M. m (indeclinable)

1. Praenominal abbreviation of Marcus.
2. (rare) Praenominal abbreviation of Manius.