con‐の英語

語源 1

From Middle English connen, from 古期英語 cunnan (“to know, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence know). Doublet of can.

動詞

con (三人称単数 現在形 cons, 現在分詞 conning, 過去形および過去分詞形 conned)

1. (まれに) To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:

     For Cassius is aweary of the world;

     Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;

     Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,

     Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,

     To cast into my teeth.

   • 1807, William Wordsworth, Poems, "Resolution and Independence" (composed 1802):

     At length, himself unsettling, he the pond

     Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look

     Upon the muddy water, which he conned,

     As if he had been reading in a book

   • 1795 Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament:

     I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:

     During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility.

   • 1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories:

     The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.

2. (まれに, obsolete) To know, understand, acknowledge.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, Iune:

     Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill

関連する語

• cunning
• ken
• unconned

語源 2

Abbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).

名詞

con (複数形 cons)

1. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).

   pros and cons

2. (abbreviation) conservative

   own the cons

同意語

• disadvantage

反意語

• pro

関連する語

• pros and cons

語源 3

Clipping of convict.

名詞

con (複数形 cons)

1. (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.

語源 4

From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.

名詞

con (複数形 cons)

1. (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:deception

動詞

con (三人称単数 現在形 cons, 現在分詞 conning, 過去形および過去分詞形 conned)

1. (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.

同意語

• (to be conned): be sold a pup (慣用的用法, 英国用法, 豪州用法)

関連する語

語源 5

From earlier cond; see conn.

動詞

con (三人称単数 現在形 cons, 現在分詞 conning, 過去形および過去分詞形 conned)

1. Alternative form of conn (“direct a ship”)

名詞

con (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”)

語源 6

Clipping of convention or conference.

名詞

con (複数形 cons)

1. (informal) An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.
   • 1995 September 4, Lindsay Crawford, “Re: Intersection”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom, Usenet‎^[2], message-ID <9509042250393785@emerald.com>:

     I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog, thank you.

語源 7

Clipping of conversion.

名詞

con (複数形 cons)

1. (informal) The conversion of part of a building.

   We're getting a loft con done next year.

語源 8

Clipping of consumption.

名詞

con (uncountable)

1. (informal, obsolete) Consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.

参考

• cone
• mod cons

アナグラム

• CNO, NCO, NOC, OCN, ONC, onc

接頭辞

con-

1. (non-productive) used with certain words to add a notion similar to those conveyed by with, together, or joint

   congenial, congregation, console, consonant, construct, converge, etc.

2. (non-productive) used with certain words to intensify their meaning

   confirm

使用する際の注意点

Con- becomes

col- before l: collaborate;

com- before b, m, and p: combat, commit, compel;

cor- before r: correlation;

It can also appear as co-: coexistence, cosine.

語源 2

Back-formation from conlang, short for "constructed language".

接頭辞

con-

1. attached to certain words to obtain new, informal, subcultural words in which con- conveys a notion of:
   1. constructed, artificial
   2. hypothetical, fictional
   3. related to conlangs, conworlds, etc.

派生語

アナグラム

• CNO, NCO, NOC, OCN, ONC, onc

Latin

語源

From the preposition cum (“with”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon/, [kɔn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon/, [kɔn]

接頭辞

con-

1. Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects

   coeō, colloquor, convīvor, etc.: colligō, compōnō, condō, etc.

2. Used in compounds to indicate the completeness, perfecting of any act, and thus gives intensity to the signification of the simple word

   commaculō, commendō, concitō, comminuō, concerpō, concīdō, convellō, etc.

使用する際の注意点

• Before vowels and h, the prefix becomes co-, or rarely com-. Excluded are i and u when these represent /j/ and /w/.
• Before b, m and p, the prefix becomes com-.
• Before l, the prefix becomes col-.
• Before r, the prefix becomes cor-.
• Before n, the prefix becomes cō- (または remains con-, in Late Latin).
• Before original gn, the prefix becomes co- and gn is not reduced to n.

As usual in Latin phonology, the sequences ons and onf are pronounced with nasalised long vowels, and the vowel is written with a macron, i.e. cōnspīrō and cōnferō.

派生語

参照

• con- in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers