angelとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ānʹjəl, IPA^(key): /ˈeɪn.dʒəl/

語源 1

From Middle English angel, aungel, ængel, engel, from Anglo-Norman angele, angle and 古期英語 ænġel, enġel, enċġel (“angel, messenger”), from Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”). The religious sense of the Greek word first appeared in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew word מַלְאָךְ‎ (malʾāḵ, “messenger”) or יהוה מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ YHWH, “messenger of YHWH”).

Use of the term in some churches to refer to a church official derives from interpreting the "angels" of the Seven churches of Asia in Revelation as being bishops or ministers rather than angelic beings.

別の表記

• Angel
• angell (廃れた用法)

名詞

angel (複数形 angels)

1. An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.
   • 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd

     The dear good angel of the Spring, / The nightingale.

2. (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
3. A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness.

   Thanks for making me breakfast in bed, you little angel.

   • 2014 August 25, John Eligon, “Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life.

4. (obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene viii], lines 13–14, page 151, column 1:

     Diſpaire thy Charme, / And let the Angell whom thou ſtill haſt ſeru’d / Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb / Vntimely ript.

5. (possibly obsolete) An official (a bishop, または sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic church.
   • 1817, Thomas Stackhouse, A history of the holy Bible, corrected and improved by G. Gleig, page 504

     An apostle, or angel, or bishop, as he is now called, resided with a college of presbyters about him, in every considerable city of the Roman empire; to that angel or bishop, was committed the pastoral care of all the Christian in the city and its suburbs, exending as far on all sides as the jurisdiction of the civil magistrate extended;

   • 1832, Edward Irving, speech before the Presbytery of London, quoted in 1862, Margaret Oliphant, The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London: Illustrated by His Journals and Correspondence, page 429

     […] the head of that Church, in whose place I stand in my Church, and in whose place no other standeth (the elders かつ deacons have their place, but this belongeth to the angel または minister of the Church), and the Lord commendeth him for trying […]

   • 1878, Edward Miller, The History and Doctrines of Irvingism Or of the So-called Catholic and Apostolic Church, § 9 Pastors, page 50 (discussing the structure of the early Christian church かつ of the Catholic Apostolic Church):

     The second or highest grade consists of the Angels or Bishops of Churches. Each Church has its Angel, who has (1) the higher supervision and care of all the flock, (2) the supervision and care of the Priests under him, and (3) the care of the Church itself.

6. (historical) An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.

   Synonym: angel-noble

7. (military slang, originally Royal Air Force) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.

   Climb to angels sixty. ― ascend to 60,000 feet

8. (colloquial, dated) An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
9. (finance) An angel investor.
   • 2011, OECD, Financing High-Growth Firms: The Role of Angel Investors:

     “Latent” angels are defined as those who have not invested capital in the past 12 months, although they likely have invested knowledge in the process of reviewing potential investments.

10. (theater) The person who funds a show.

    Synonym: backer

同意語

• (spiritual messenger): errand-ghost (まれに)

下位語

• cherub, minion, power, principality, seraph, throne

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• Jamaican Creole: aynjel
• → Chinese: 安琪兒 (ānqí'ér)
• → Hawaiian: ʻānela
• → Lingala: anjelu, anzelu
• → Malagasy: anjely

動詞

angel (三人称単数 現在形 angels, 現在分詞 angeling または angelling, 過去形および過去分詞形 angeled または angelled)

1. (transitive, theater, slang) To support by donating money.
   • 1944, Maurice Zolotow, Never Whistle in a Dressing Room; Or, Breakfast in Bedlam (page 59)

     Six years ago, he lost $20,000 in the first show he angelled, a turkey called Dance Night.

   • 1984, “American Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name)‎^[2], volume 118, page 88:

     You've got to come to Chicago to meet Duell, and see Wilson, who's going to angel the show.

語源 2

Clipping of Angelman

名詞

angel (複数形 angels)

1. (informal) A person who has Angelman syndrome.

アナグラム

• -angle, Angle, Elgan, Galen, Lange, Legan, Nagle, agnel, angle, genal, glean, lenga