Octoberとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French octobre, from Latin octōber (“eighth month”), from Latin octō (“eight”), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“twice four”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix; October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɒkˈtəʊbə/
• (米国発音) enPR: äk-tōʹbər, IPA^(key): /ɑkˈtoʊbəɹ/, [ɑkˈtʰoʊbɚ]
• 韻: -əʊbə(ɹ)

固有名詞

October (複数形 Octobers)

1. The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November. Abbreviation: Oct.
2. (rare) A female given name from English.
   • 2002 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 4, page 138:

     The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House, $23.95). It's about a woman named October. She's a young black schoolteacher in the 1950s ...

   • 2009, C.S. Graham, The Archangel Project, →ISBN, page 31:

     From somewhere in the distance came the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle's siren. Lance flipped open his phone. “Get me the address of a woman named October Guinness . . . That's right, October,” he said again, [...]

派生語

派生した語

名詞

October (uncountable)

1. (now historical) A type of ale traditionally brewed in October. [from 18th c.]
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 114, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, →OCLC:

     [T]he gate of a large chateau, of a most noble and venerable appearance […] induced them to alight and view the apartments, contrary to their first intention of drinking a glass of his October at the door.

動詞

October (三人称単数 現在形 Octobers, 現在分詞 Octobering, 過去形および過去分詞形 Octobered)

1. (historical, transitive) In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.

参考

• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December ^{(Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)}

アナグラム

• Octobre