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語源

From Latin ancillāris (“ancillary; relating to female slaves”), from ancilla (“slave-woman”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ænˈsɪl.ə.ɹiː/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈæn.səˌlɛɹ.i/, [ˈɛn.səˌlɛɹ.i]
• (Australian) IPA: /ænˈsɪl.ə.ɹi/, [ɛːnˈsɪl.ə.ɹi]
• 韻: -ɪləɹi

形容詞

ancillary (comparative more ancillary, superlative most ancillary)

1. Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary.

   Synonym: accessory

   • 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, Chapter 3:

     […] how easily he took all things along with him,—the persons, the opinions, and the day, and nature became ancillary to a man.

   • 1898, John Wesley Powell, “Chapter 7”, in Truth and Error:

     [E]very organ of the body, whatever function it may perform, must also perform the other four functions in an ancillary manner.

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 443:

     The same doctrinaire belief, inherited from Marxist tradition, in the ancillary function of culture and its absolute dependence on technology led Bogdanov to the theory of 'proletarian culture' (Proletkult) and the belief that it was the proletariat's mission to effect a clean break in cultural history.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:

     The cafeteria is primarily used by students and staff (academic, administrative, and ancillary).

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名詞

ancillary (plural ancillaries)

1. Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter.
   • 1950 November, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 781:

     Auxiliaries and ancillaries are comprehensive, and include a Westinghouse motor-driven recriprocating compressor used for locomotive braking and general service air, two rotary exhauster sets for train brakes when hauling passenger or fitted freight trains, and an oil-fired train heating boiler.

2. (archaic) An auxiliary.

参照

• “ancillary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “ancillary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “ancillary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Carlylian, cranially