Thomasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒ.məs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ.məs/
• 韻: -ɒməs

名詞

Thomas (複数形 Thomases)

1. (derogatory, Christianity) An infidel (in reference to the doubting Apostle).

派生語

• doubting Thomas

固有名詞

Thomas (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 Thomases)

1. An Apostle, best remembered for doubting the resurrection of Jesus.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 20:24–25:

     But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

2. A male given name from Aramaic of biblical origin, popular since the 13th century.
   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VI, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 70:

     "Good,—that's a whack. What's your name?" / "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." / "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?"

   • 1941, Judith Kelly, Marriage is a Private Affair, Harper, published 1944, page 133:

     - - - goodness we scarcely have a name for the baby yet now all of you must take a vote, all of you, but let's have a nice simple name like Thomas don't you think I hate elaborate names, do please all of you vote for Thomas..."

3. A common surname originating as a patronymic.
   • 2006, Chris Wrigley, A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe, London – New York: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 182:

     The reappearance of Dylan and Caitlin Thomas brought her the excitement again of literary gatherings and much uninhibited partying.²²³ For a woman of 41 the Thomases represented fun and an opportunity not to play second fiddle to a disapproving husband who was very clear as to what he wanted but not sensitive to her social needs.

4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois.
   2. An unincorporated community in Daviess County, Indiana.
   3. A city in Custer County, Oklahoma.^[1]
      • 2009, Linda D. Wilson, “Thomas”, in The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture‎^[2], Oklahoma Historical Society, retrieved 13 March 2020:

        Located in northeastern Custer County, Thomas is situated at the intersection of State Highways 33 and 47. Originally, Thomas was a trading point where William Thomas had a general store and served as the first postmaster of a post office designated on February 12, 1894.

   4. A ghost town in Linn County, Oregon.
   5. An unincorporated community in Hamlin County, South Dakota.
   6. An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia.
   7. A former community in King County, Washington.
   8. A minor city in Tucker County, West Virginia.^[1]
   9. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Thomas Township.

派生語

関連する語

• (female given names): Tamsin, Thomasina

派生した語

• → Hawaiian: Kamaki
• → Maori: Tāmati
• → Scottish Gaelic: Tòmas

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Thomas is the 16th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 756,142 individuals. Thomas is most common among White (52.6%) and Black/African American (38.8%) individuals.

参照

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs), the Biblical Greek transcription of Aramaic תאומא‎ or תאמא‎ (“twin”), the nickname of one of the Twelve Apostles.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰoː.maːs/, [ˈt̪ʰoːmäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.mas/, [ˈt̪ɔːmäs]

固有名詞

Thōmās m (genitive Thōmae); first declension

1. (Christianity) Thomas the Apostle.
2. a male given name from Aramaic of Biblical origin

語形変化

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative 単数形 in -ās).

• The accusative is sometimes Thomam.

派生した語

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: Toma
• Italian: Tommaso
• → Sicilian: Tummasu
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: Tomás
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: Tomás
• Old French: Tumas
  • Middle French: Thomas
    • French: Thomas
      • → Vietnamese: Tôma
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: Tomàs
  • Occitan: Tomàs
• Old Galician-Portuguese: Thomas
  • Galician: Tomás, Tomé
  • Portuguese: Tomás, Thomás, Tomé
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: Tomás
    • → Cebuano: Tomas
    • → Tagalog: Tomas
    • → Chinese: → 托馬斯／托马斯 (Tuōmǎsī) (transliteration)
  • Norman: Thonmas, Thomas
• Piedmontese: Tomà
• Sicilian: Tumasi
• Venetian: Tomà
• → Basque: Tomas
• → Czech: Tomáš
• → Danish: Thomas, Tomas
  • → Greenlandic: Tuumarsi
• → Estonian: Toomas
• → Faroese: Tummas
• → Finnish: Tuomas
• → German: Thomas
• → Hungarian: Tamás
• → Icelandic: Tómas
• → Irish: Tomás
• → Latvian: Toms, Tomass
• → Lithuanian: Tomas
• → Maltese: Tumas
• → Manx: Thomaase
• → Middle English: Thomas
  • English: Thomas
    • → Hawaiian: Kamaki
    • → Maori: Tāmati
    • → Scottish Gaelic: Tòmas
• → Norwegian: Thomas, Tomas
• → Polish: Tomasz
• → Sami: Dommá, Duomis, Duommá
• → Scottish Gaelic: Tàmhas, Tòmas
• → Slovak: Tomáš
• → Slovene: Tomaž
• → Swedish: Tomas, Thomas
• → Welsh: Tomos
• → West Frisian: Tomas