agerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.dʒə/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɚ/

名詞

ager (複数形 agers)

1. One who or that which ages something.
2. (euphemistic) One who is aging; an elderly person.
   • 1965, Richard Hays Williams, Claudine G. Wirths, Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 165:

     When the aging person depends on another, the control of the aged one's life space is placed in the hands of another person who may or may not contribute action energy that is appropriate or acceptable from the standpoint of the ager.

   • 2006, Gloria Davenport, Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping with Difficult Elders, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 143:

     Inappropriate behavior then erupts from the agers involved, disturbing everyone around, including the agers themselves, who often do not understand what is happening and struggle excessively to maintain rigid control of old perceptions and self images.

   • 2014, Susan H. McFadden, Mark Brennan, New Directions in the Study of Late Life Religiousness and Spirituality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 62:

     This definition of success is located in society's structures and suits society, not the agers. Successful ageing is arguably therefore a socially constructed phenomenon, characterized by lack of “noise,” maintenance of youthful status until death, and a dogged engagement with social structures which appear almost as if designed to discourage the engagement of older people.

同意語

• (elderly person): geriatric, oldster, senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person

アナグラム

• GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, areg, gare, gear, rage

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *agros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra) and 古期英語 æcer (English acre).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡer/, [ˈäɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡ʒer/, [ˈäːd͡ʒer]

名詞

ager m (genitive agrī); second declension

1. field, acre
2. land, estate, park
3. territory
4. country, countryside
5. terrain
6. soil

語形変化

Second-declension noun (nominative 単数形 in -er).

派生語

派生した語

• Aromanian: agru
• French: aire
• → French: ager
• Galician: agro, agra
• Italian: agro
• Megleno-Romanian: agru
• Old Occitan: agre
• Portuguese: agro
• Romanian: agru
• Spanish: agro

参照

• “ager”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ager”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ager in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to irrigate fields: agros irrigare
    
  • the river floods the fields: flumen agros inundat
    
  • to settle a large number of people in a country: multitudinem in agris collocare
    
  • to till the ground: agrum colere (Leg. Agr. 2. 25. 67)
    
  • to leave fertile ground untilled: agros fertiles deserere
    
  • to live in the country: in agris esse, habitare
    
  • the corn is not yet ripe: frumenta in agris matura non sunt (B. G. 1. 16. 2)
    
  • public land; state domain: ager publicus
    
  • to allot land: agros assignare (Leg. Agr. 1. 6. 17)
    
  • to make an inroad into hostile territory: excursionem in hostium agros facere
    
• “ager”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ager”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin