countとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computare, present active infinitive of computō (“I compute”). Displaced native Middle English tellen (“to count”) (from 古期英語 tellan) and Middle English rimen (“to count, enumerate”) (from 古期英語 rīman). Doublet of compute.

動詞

count (三人称単数 現在形 counts, 現在分詞 counting, 過去形および過去分詞形 counted)

1. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.

   Can you count to a hundred?

   The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.

2. (transitive) To determine the number (of objects in a group).

   There are three apples; count them.

   • c. 1845–1846, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, in Poems. […], volume II, new edition, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1850, OCLC 3262114, sonnet XLII, page 479:

     How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

3. (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.

   Your views don’t count here.    It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.

4. (intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
   • 1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney

     This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.

   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.

   Apples count as a type of fruit.

5. (transitive) To consider something an example of something.

   He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.   I count you as more than a friend.

6. (obsolete) To take account or note (of).
   • c. 1589–1593, Shakespeare, William, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, line 37:

     No man counts of her beauty.

7. (Britain, law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

同意語

• (determine the number of objects in a group): enumerate, number; see also Thesaurus:count

派生語

関連する語

• compute

名詞

count (複数形 counts)

1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.

   Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.

2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 177:

     By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.

3. A countdown.
4. (law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
5. (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.

   He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.

6. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book V, canto X, stanza 16:

     When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.

派生語

形容詞

count (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, grammar) Countable.
   • 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118:

     For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.

語源 2

From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte (“count”), from Latin comes (“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". Doublet of comes and comte.

名詞

count (複数形 counts)

1. The male ruler of a county.
2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

同意語

• (English counts): earl
• (French counts): comte
• (Italian counts): conte
• (German counts): graf

派生語

• viscount
• count palatine, count palatinate

関連する語

• (female form または wife): countess, contessa
• (adjectival form): comital
• (related titles): baron, don, duke, earl, lord, prince