accountantとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ə.ˈkaʊn.tənt/, [ə.ˈkæʊn.ʔn̩ʔ]

語源 1

From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account +‎ -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.

名詞

accountant (複数形 accountants)

1. One who renders account; one accountable.
2. A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
3. (accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
4. (accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
5. (euphemistic) A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one

引用

• [1900, Francis William Pixley, Accountancy — constructive and recording accountancy (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London).‎^[1], volume 1, page 4:

  The word Accountant is derived from the French word compter, which took its origin from the Latin word computare. The word was formerly written in English as "accomptant", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the "p", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form.]

派生語

• accountant general
• chartered accountant
• Certified National Accountant
• management accountant

関連する語

• account

派生した語

• → Dutch: accountant
  • → Indonesian: akuntan

語源 2

• First attested in the early 15th century.

形容詞

accountant (comparative more accountant, superlative most accountant)

1. (obsolete) Accountable.

使用する際の注意点

• (adjective): Followed by the word to.