antiphonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈæntɪfən/, /ˈæntɪˌfɑn/

名詞

antiphon (複数形 antiphons)

1. A devotional chant; a piece of music sung responsively.
   • 1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book V, section 2, page 171–172:

     Father Vaillant came back in his vestments, with his pyx and basin of holy water, and began sprinkling the bed and the watchers, repeating the antiphon, Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor.

2. A response or reply.
   • 2007, Barbara Everett, “Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances”, in London Review of Books, 29:6, page 20:

     The Clown […] says: ‘And so we wept; and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed’; to which his father, the Shepherd, adds the comfortable antiphon, ‘We may live, son, to shed many more.’

派生語

Further reading

• antiphon on Wikipedia.