atramentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 atrament, from Latin ātrāmentum, from ātrāre (“to blacken”), from āter (“black”). First attested in the 14th century.

発音

• IPA: /ˈæ.tɹə.mɛnt/

名詞

atrament (countable and uncountable, plural atraments or atramenta)

1. (archaic) Ink or an inklike substance.
2. (figurative, rare) Any particularly black liquid substance.
   • 1908, Théophile Gautier, “King Candaules”, in Lafcadio Hearn, transl., Stories, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, →OCLC, page 91:

     The irises of those eyes, whose pupils were blacker than atrament, varied singularly in shades of shifting colour.

   • 1927, Reginald Wright Kauffman, “Pursuit” (chapter XXVIII), in Blind Man, New York: Duffield & Company, page 268:

     Everything was lost to sight in that ponderous atrament which precedes the dawn.

   • 1994, Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver, The Island of the Day Before, New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, →ISBN, page 158:

     Onyx flashed in her hair, and the delicate fabric that revealed, concealing, the outlines of her face and her body had the same silvery atrament of the stars.

関連する語

参照

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin ātrāmentum.

名詞

atrament (plural atraments)

1. ink
2. vitriol

関連する語

• arnement

派生した語

• English: atrament

参照

• “atrament, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.