censusとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnsəs/

名詞

census (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 censuses または censusses または census)

1. An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
2. Count, tally.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7:

     In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...

関連する語

動詞

census (三人称単数 現在形 censuses または censusses, 現在分詞 censusing または censussing, 過去形および過去分詞形 censused または censussed)

1. (transitive) To conduct a census on.
   • 1893, Census of India, 1891, volume 23, page 347:

     Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals.

   • 2008, Pierandrea Brichetti et al., “Recent declines in urban Italian Sparrow Passer (domesticus) italiae populations in northern Italy”, in Ibis, page 179, column 2:

     Indeed, none of the recorded characteristics of buildings nor their location affected our counts of breeding Sparrows, which appeared to be distributed rather homogeneously across the urban areas we censused.

2. (intransitive) To collect a census.
   • 1965, Fauna & Flora, page 46:

     My initiation to waterfowl censussing took place in the early days of the A.W.E., as it is familiarly known, when I served as a junior to one of the ablest of the Witwatersrand pioneers, Royce Reed. The method used must remain one of the three basic methods of Transvaal waterfowl censussing, although it has certain inherent limitations.

   • 1995, Netherlands Journal of Zoology, volume 45, page 390:

     For 14 individuals, eight censusses per daily period were performed within two weeks (32 censusses per individual), each time recording the coordinates of location. The territories of the individuals were defined as the area defended successfully against conspecifics by agonistic and/or non-agonistic behaviour, as described by Wickler (1969) and Nelissen (1976). The locations of the territories were determined from censussing; their sizes were estimated by behavioural observations.

Latin

語源

From cēnseō.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈken.sus/, [ˈkẽːs̠ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.sus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛnsus]

名詞

cēnsus m (genitive cēnsūs); fourth declension

1. census, a registering of the populace and their property
2. A register resulting from a census.
3. (poetic) Rich gifts, presents, wealth

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

派生した語

All are borrowed.

形容詞

cēnsus (feminine cēnsa, neuter cēnsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. registered
2. assessed

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

参照

• census in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• census in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• census in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• census in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold the census: censum habere, agere (Liv. 3. 22)
    
  • to strike off the burgess-roll: censu prohibere, excludere