accentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音, Ireland) enPR: ăkʹsənt, IPA^(key): /ˈak.sənt/, /-sɛnt/
  • (米国用法, Canada, General Australian) enPR: ăkʹsĕnt, IPA^(key): /ˈæk.sɛnt/, (also 豪州用法) /-sənt/
  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɛk.sent/, /-sənt/
  • Rhymes: -æksɛnt

名詞

accent (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 accents)

1. (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.

   Synonym: stress

   Hyponyms: stress, stress accent, pitch, pitch accent

   In the word "careful", the accent is placed on the first syllable.

2. (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.

   At this hotel, the accent is on luxury.

3. (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.

   The name Cézanne is written with an acute accent.

5. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

     I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain accent was a plain knave; which for my part I will not be, though I should win your displeasure to entreat me to 't.

   • 1696, Matthew Prior, "From Celia to Damon", in Poems on Several Occasions

     The tender Accent of a Woman's Cry / Will pass unheard, will unregarded die;

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume I, chapter 15:

     And he repeated her words with such assurance of accent, such boastful pretence of amazement, that she could not help replying with quickness …

6. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.

   a foreign accent

   a broad Irish accent

   a hint of a German accent

   1. (informal, sometimes proscribed) A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.

      My professor's accent is so thick that it's difficult to understand her lectures.

      She spoke with a strong accent that betrayed her southern roots.

      I was surprised to learn that he was an immigrant, as he spoke without any accent.

      • 2015 November 14, Adam Gopnik, quoting Célia, “Terror Strikes in Paris”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-12-19:

        They were all Middle Eastern types but spoke French without any accent.

      • 2016 June 8, Tyler Mears, “I used to hide my Valleys accent in case people thought I was less intelligent - which was completely stupid”, in WalesOnline‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-01-10:

        Growing up in the Rhondda and having a strong accent was never a problem for me and my voice never really stood out from the crowd.

      • 2018 January 24, Lakshine Sathiyanathan, Lisa Xing, quoting Mariya Miloshevych, “Why some people try to chip away at their accent”, in CBC News‎^[3], archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

        It's really hard to get in an audition room when you have an accent. Rather than being treated as the other people, you are falling into a category of foreigners who can't really maintain the role.

      • 2020 December 30, Christi Carras, quoting Rishi Maharaj, “'Schitt's Creek' star Rizwan Manji defends his character's Indian accent”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[4], archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

        Why go to the effort of writing in a character with an Indian name played by an Indian actor whose main personality trait is that he is stupid and has an accent?

      • 2022 March 22, Elise Hu, Jinae West, Jordana Hochman, Andrea Gutierrez, “Rejecting assimilation in 'You Sound Like a White Girl'”, in NPR‎^[5], archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

        But over the years, even after perfecting "accent-less" English, graduating from college, getting a job at Goldman Sachs, and becoming an American citizen, Arce still felt like she didn't belong.

   2. (sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
      • 2008, Jeremy Linn Brunson, The Practice and Organization of Sign Language, page 76:

        I believe I still retain some of my hearing accent when I use American Sign Language.

      • 2015 November 5, Nina Porzucki, The World‎^[6], archived from the original on 2022-12-07:

        Cheesesteaks, Peanut Chews, Tastykakes, oh yeah, the Liberty Bell — there's so much to love about Philadelphia, but one of the best things about the city of Brotherly Love is the accent. We're not talking about spoken English — we're talking about American Sign Language.

7. A word; a significant tone or sound.
   • 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, OCLC 1085228267, page 20:

     I heard my landlady's accents attuned to nervous civility, mingling with the mellow tones of a deep masculine voice,

8. (usually 複数形 only) Expressions in general; speech.
   • 1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 3”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, / Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.

9. (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
10. (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
11. (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
12. (music) A mark used to represent this special emphasis.
    

    The third and fourth symbols are accents (marks used to represent special emphasis in music).
13. (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
14. (mathematics) A prime symbol.
15. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.

    accent color

16. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
17. (archaic) Utterance.

使用する際の注意点

The word "accent" is often used specifically to refer to manners of speech that differ significantly from the local standard or one's personal speech.

派生語

参考

• circumflex

参照

• “Accent, sb.” on pages 50–51 of § 1 (A) of volume I (A–B, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray?, 1888) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
• “accent, n.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)

語源 2

From Middle French accenter, from Old French accenter, from Latin accentō, from accentus.

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: ăk-sĕntʹ, IPA^(key): /ækˈsɛnt/
• (米国用法) enPR: ăk-sĕntʹ, ăkʹsĕnt, IPA^(key): /ækˈsɛnt/, /ˈæk.sɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt, -æksɛnt

動詞

accent (三人称単数 現在形 accents, 現在分詞 accenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 accented)

1. (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
2. (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
3. (transitive) To mark with written accents.

参照

• “Accent, v.” on page 51/3 of § 1 (A) of volume I (A–B, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray?, 1888) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
• “accent, v.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)

語源

Borrowed from Latin accentus.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑk.kent/

名詞

accent m

1. accent
2. diacritic

語形変化

参照

• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “accent”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “accent”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.