domableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Young alpacas (Vicugna pacos) in Schwarzenbach, Burgthann, Bavaria, Germany. Alpacas are regarded as domable, or tameable.

From Late Latin domābilis (“tameable”), from domāre (“to tame”), present infinitive of domō (“to break in, to tame”), from Proto-Italic *domaō (“to tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, to tame”); compare Old French domable.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊməbl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊməbl̩/
• ハイフネーション: dom‧a‧ble

形容詞

domable (comparative more domable, superlative most domable)

1. (obsolete, まれに) Capable of being tamed; tameable, domesticable.

   Synonyms: domesticable, domesticatable, tamable, tameable

   Antonyms: undomesticable, undomesticatable, untamable, untameable

   • 1617, [John Salkeld], A Treatise of Paradise. And the Principall Contents thereof: […] , London: Printed by Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, OCLC 606533174, page 188:

     And this may alſo bee the reaſon, why God preſenting all other creatures to the preſence of man, he did not likewiſe bring him the fiſhes as well as the beaſts of all ſpecies and kindes, because the beaſts being domable, and eaſie to be tamed by man (at leaſtway whiles man was ſubject to God) might serue for the vſe of man, while man was not diſobedient to God: […]

   • 1815, Antonio de Alcedo, “Provincial Terms, &c.”, in G[eorge] A[lexander] Thompson, editor, The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. Containing and Entire Translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, […] In Five Volumes, volume V, London: Printed for the author, and published by Carpenter and Son, […]; [et al.], OCLC 367986180, page 8:

     Alpaca. (Camelus Pacos,) also Paco. […] This animal, like the camel, is domable, and will carry from seven to nine stone; it will fall on its knees for the convenient reception and exoneration of its burthen.

   • [1831, Henry Neuman; Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, M[ateo] Seoane, editor, Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages; […] In Two Volumes, volume I (Spanish かつ English), 5th edition, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, and Co. [et al.], OCLC 561959851, page 336:

     Domáble, a. Tameable, conquerable, domable, susceptive of taming.]

派生語

• domableness (廃れた用法, まれに)