antiqueとは

語源

Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante- and antic.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ænˈtiːk/
• 韻: -iːk

形容詞

antique (comparative antiquer, superlative antiquest)

1. Old, used especially of furniture and household items; out of date.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tremarn Case^[1]:

     “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”

関連する語

名詞

antique (複数形 antiques)

1. An old piece of furniture, household item, or other similar item.
2. (figuratively, mildly pejorative) An old person.

派生語

動詞

antique (三人称単数 現在形 antiques, 現在分詞 antiquing, 過去形および過去分詞形 antiqued)

1. (intransitive) To shop for antiques; to search for antiques.
2. (transitive) To make an object appear to be an antique in some way.

Further reading

• antique in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• antique in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• quinate

Latin

形容詞

antīque

1. vocative masculine singular of antīquus

参照

• antique in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antique in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “antique” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)