Men'sとは

名詞

men's

1. possessive case of men: belonging to some or all male humans.
2. Clipping of men’s room: a lavatory intended for use by men.
   • 1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, Vol. 6, p. 27:

     A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".

3. Short for men's department: an area selling clothing for adult males in a department store.

使用する際の注意点

Distinguished from man's, which as a collective noun, refers to all mankind in every gender. Not to be used as a form of men, the simple plural.

同意語

• (facility for urination かつ defecation): See Thesaurus:bathroom

参考

• Appendix:Special uses of possessives in English

形容詞

men's (not comparable)

1. Intended for use by men.
   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     The leading men's magazine of its age, Playboy helped bring explicit photography, embodied by its famous nude centerfolds, into the mainstream.

同意語

• gentlemen's, gents'; gents (英国用法)

等位語

• (all senses): women's, ladies'

アナグラム

• NEMS, nems

語源

From Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”). Cognates include Ancient Greek μένος (ménos), μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō), μνήμη (mnḗmē), μανίᾱ (maníā), μαινάς (mainás), μάντις (mántis), αὐτόματος (autómatos), μανθάνω (manthánō), Sanskrit मति (matí), Russian мнить (mnitʹ, “to think”), and 古期英語 ġemynd (English mind).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mens/, [mẽːs]

名詞

mēns f (genitive mentis); third declension

1. mind
2. intellect
3. reasoning, judgement

使用する際の注意点

In most classical Latin, the ablative singular mente was used with a feminine adjective to form a phrasal adverb that expressed a person's state of mind, such as vēlōcī mente (“quick-mindedly, with a quick mind”):

• 1st century BCE, Catullus, poem 8, line 11:

  sed obstinata mente perfer, obdura

  but with a resolved mind, endure, hold out.

• 29-19 BCE, Virgil, Aenid, book 4, line 105:

  sensit enim simulata mente locutam

  for she realized that (she) had spoken with false purpose.

In Late Latin, this construction began to be extended to other adjectives and uses as well, and in Vulgar Latin and the later Romance languages, it became a general adverbial suffix.

• 8th century, Reichenau Glosses:

  singulariter pro solamente

  singulariter for/instead of solamente

語形変化

Third declension i-stem.

派生語

派生した語

From the noun itself:

From the ablative mente, used as an adverbial suffix:

参照

• mens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mens” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to attract universal attention: omnium animos or mentes in se convertere
    
  • to free one's mind from the influences of the senses: sevocare mentem a sensibus (De Nat. D. 3. 8. 21)
    
  • to be out of one's mind: mente captum esse, mente alienata esse
    
  • to possess great ability: intellegentia or mente multum valere
    
  • to grasp a thing mentally: animo, mente, cogitatione aliquid comprehendere, complecti
    
  • something comes into my mind: mihi in mentem venit alicuius rei
    
  • to fix all one's thoughts on an object: mentem in aliqua re defigere
    
  • to think over, consider a thing: agitare (in) mente or (in) animo aliquid
    
  • with the intention of..: eo consilio, ea mente, ut
    
  • nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: semper memoria eius in (omnium) mentibus haerebit
    
  • a man's soul breathes through his writings: alicuius mens in scriptis spirat
    
  • to upset a person: alicuius mentem turbare, conturbare, perturbare
    
  • to compose oneself with difficulty: mente vix constare (Tusc. 4. 17. 39)
    
  • to be calm, self-possessed: mente consistere
    
  • a good conscience: mens bene sibi conscia
    
  • to be tormented by remorse: (mens scelerum furiis agitatur)
    
  • superstition has taken possession of their souls: superstitio mentes occupavit (Verr. 4. 51. 113)
    
  • (ambiguous) to see with the mind's eye: oculis mentis videre aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to be of sane mind: mentis compotem esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be of sound mind: sanae mentis esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to obscure the mental vision: mentis quasi luminibus officere (vid. sect. XIII. 6) or animo caliginem offundere
    
  • (ambiguous) innate ideas: notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted: de statu suo or mentis deici (Att. 16. 15)
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose one's head, be beside oneself: sui (mentis) compotem non esse
    
  • (ambiguous) enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
    
• mens in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mens in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• mens in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray