a lasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 alas, from Old French a las (French hélas), from a (“ah”) + las, from Latin lassus (“weary”). Compare Dutch helaas, North Frisian ielas, West Frisian eilaas.

別の表記

• (obsolete) helas

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈlæs/, /əˈlɑːs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈlæs/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ɘˈlɛs/
• 韻: -æs

間投詞

alas

1. Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion, grief, resignation, or disappointment.

   Synonyms: alack, oh well

   I wanted to catch the last bus home, but alas, I was ten minutes late and had to take a taxi instead.

   • c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:

     Helas I lamente the dull abuſyd brayne
     The enfatuate fantaſies the wytles wylfulnes
     Of on and hothyr at me that haue dyſdayne

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:

     Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; of moſt excellent fancy, he hath borne me on his backe a thouſand times: And how abhorred my Imagination is, my gorge riſes at it.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 18:10:

     Standing afarre off for the feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that mighty citie: for in one houre is thy iudgement come.

   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188:

     The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.

派生語

• alack and alas
• alas and alack
• alas the day, alas the while

語源 2

From Yakut алаас (alaas).

発音

• IPA: /əˈlɑːs/, /əˈlæs/

名詞

alas (plural alases or alasses)

1. A type of geological depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost.

   Alternative forms: alass, alaas

アナグラム

• AALS, ALSA, LAAS, Lasa, aals, sala

間投詞

alas

1. alas
   • 1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Morte Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 451, verso, lines 13–14:

     Alas ſeyde quene Gwenyu[er] now ar we myſcheved bothe //

     “Alas!” said Queen Guinevere, “now are we mischieved both!”

派生した語

• English: alas

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈa.ɫaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː.las]

動詞

alās

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of alō

語源 2

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈaː.ɫaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː.las]

名詞

ālās

1. accusative plural of āla

参照

• "alas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)