dexterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkstə/

形容詞

dexter (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Right; on the right-hand side.

   Antonym: sinister

   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene v], column 2:

     my Mothers bloud / Runs on the dexter checke, and this ſiniſter / Bounds in my fathers:

   • 1887, George William Foote; J. M. Wheeler, Crimes of Christianity, London: Progressive Publishing:

     Displaying his dexter palm, he exclaimed that there was a hand that never took a bribe; whereupon a smart auditor cried "How about the one behind your back?"

   • 1911, Saki, ‘The Match-Maker’, The Chronicles of Clovis:

     Clovis wiped the trace of Turkish coffee and the beginnings of a smile from his lips, and slowly lowered his dexter eyelid.

名詞

dexter (複数形 dexters)

1. (heraldry) The right side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the left side to the viewer.
2. The right hand.

派生語

参考

• sinister

Latin

別の表記

• dester (Vulgar または Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)

語源

From Proto-Italic *deksteros, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱs-tero-s, from *deḱs- (“right”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δεξιτερός (dexiterós), and compare δεξιός (dexiós), Old High German zesawa (“right hand, right hand side”), Sanskrit दक्षिण (dákṣiṇa), Old Church Slavonic деснъ (desnŭ, “right”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdek.ster/, [ˈd̪ɛks̠t̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdek.ster/, [ˈd̪ɛkst̪er]

形容詞

dexter (feminine dextra または dextera, neuter dextrum または dexterum, 比較級 dexterior, 最上級 dextimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine 単数形 in -er; two different stems)

1. right (relative direction), right hand

   Antonyms: laevus, scaevus, sinister

2. skillful
3. fortunate, favorable
4. proper, fitting

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine 単数形 in -er; two different stems).

派生語

• dextere
• dextra, dextera
• dextrāle
• dextrē
• dexteritās
• dextrāle n, dextrāliolum n
• dextrōrsum, dextrōrsus, dextrōversum
• ambidexter

派生した語

参照

• “dexter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dexter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dexter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to give one's hand to some one: manum (dextram) alicui porrigere
    
  • (ambiguous) to give one's right hand to some one: dextram alicui porrigere, dare
    
  • (ambiguous) to shake hands with a person: dextram iungere cum aliquo, dextras inter se iungere