auditorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːdɪtɚ/

名詞

auditor (複数形 auditors, feminine auditress)

1. One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
2. In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
3. One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
4. (rare) One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     There is another of better notice, and whispered through the world with some attention; credulous and vulgar auditors readily believing it, and more judicious and distinctive heads not altogether rejecting it.

   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:

     Sampson's tongue was still flying with rapidity, as if his auditors had not been void of a number, while Mr. Alboni and Natalie were holding a consultation aside.

   • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎^[1]:

     As we crossed the hall the telephone-bell rang, and we were the involuntary auditors of Professor Challenger's end of the ensuing dialogue.

5. (Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

派生語

• frauditor
• tax auditor

Latin

語源

From audiō (“hear, listen”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈdiː.tor/, [äu̯ˈd̪iːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈdi.tor/, [äu̯ˈd̪iːt̪or]

名詞

audītor m (genitive audītōris); third declension

1. a hearer
2. an auditor
3. a pupil, disciple; a person who listens to teachings

   Synonym: discipulus

4. (by metonymy) a reader of a book (books were read aloud)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

派生した語

動詞

audītor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of audiō

参照

• “auditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auditor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• auditor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to attend Plato's lectures: audire Platonem, auditorem esse Platonis
    
• auditor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016