e-lectとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From elect.

接尾辞

-elect

1. Used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.

   Senator-elect Li will be sworn in next month.

   • 2020 December 29, Frida Ghitis, “Trump has set Republicans up to fail in Georgia”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 3 October 2022:

     The full outcome of the November election will only be known after January 5, when Georgia voters choose the two senators who will determine which party controls the US Senate – and thus President-elect Joe Biden’s ability to pass laws. […] It’s unclear how many will heed the call, but it’s worth remembering that Georgia just elected to Congress a QAnon devotee, Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene.

派生語

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪˈlɛkt/
• (General American) IPA: /ɪˈlɛkt/, /i-/, /ə-/
• 韻: -ɛkt

名詞

elect (plural elects or elect)

1. One chosen or set apart.
2. (theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 42:1:

     Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 18:7:

     Shall not God avenge his won elect?

反意語

• reprobate

派生語

• president-elect

動詞

elect (third-person singular simple present elects, present participle electing, simple past and past participle elected)

1. (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something).
2. (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election.
   • 2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Norm Macdonald:

     President Obama in a speech this past week said that we should solve the nation's bee problem. Oh, God, we elected a guy who sympathizes with bees?

派生語

関連する語

形容詞

elect (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

   He is the President elect.

   • 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 16, in Sense and Sensibility:

     She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.

2. Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     colours quaint elect

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 5:21:

     the elect angels

使用する際の注意点

When denoting someone who has been elected but not yet entered office, the title is usually hyphenated (e.g. president-elect, senator-elect, representative-elect, mayor-elect, etc.). The plural forms are created by pluralizing the office (e.g. presidents-elect, senators-elect, representatives-elect, mayors-elect, etc.).

Further reading

• “elect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “elect”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.