competitorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Middle French compétiteur, from Latin competitor.

発音

• ˞enPR: kəm-pĕtʹ-ĭ-tər, IPA^(key): /kəm.ˈpɛt.ɪ.təɹ/
  • (英国発音) /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
    • (米国発音) /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/
  • 韻: -ɛtɪtə(ɹ)

名詞

competitor (複数形 competitors)

1. A person or organization against whom one is competing.
2. A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.
3. (obsolete) Partner, associate, one working with another toward a common goal.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Ioine with me now in this my meane eſtate, […]
     And when my name and honor ſhall be ſpread,
     As far as Boreas claps his braſen wings,
     Or faire Botëes ſends his cheerefull light.
     Then ſhalt thou be Competitor with me,
     And ſit with Tamburlaine in all his maieſtie.

同意語

• (person against whom one is competing): adversary (loosely), opponent (loosely)

• (participant in a competition): contestant

関連する語

• compete
• competition
• competitive

アナグラム

• optometric, potometric, topometric

Latin

別の表記

• conpetītor

語源

From competō +‎ -tor.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kom.peˈtiː.tor/, [kɔmpɛˈt̪iːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom.peˈti.tor/, [kompeˈt̪iːt̪or]

名詞

competītor m (genitive competītōris, feminine competītrīx); third declension

1. a competitor, rival, adversary, opponent
2. (by extension) plaintiff

   Synonym: petītor

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

派生した語

参照

• “competitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “competitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• competitor 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)
• competitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “competitor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “competitor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin