emailとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail.^[1] The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).^[2]

別の表記

• e-mail

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈiːmeɪl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈiˌmeɪl/
• Rhymes: -iːmeɪl

名詞

email (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 emails) (computing)

1. (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.

   Antonym: snail mail

   He sent me his details via email.

   The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.

2. (uncountable) A quantity of messages sent through an email system.

   I am searching through my old email.

   My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!

3. (countable) A message sent through an email system.

   He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.

   I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.

4. (countable, informal) An email address.

   What’s your email?

   Don’t send personal messages to my work email.

派生語

動詞

email (三人称単数 現在形 emails, 現在分詞 emailing, 過去形および過去分詞形 emailed)

1. (transitive) To send an email or emails to.

   She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.

2. (transitive, ditransitive) To send (something) through email.

   I’ll email you the link.

   He emailed the file out to everyone.

3. (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

   Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.

参考

• webmail

語源 2

Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (“enamel”) (modern French émail (“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)),^[3] from Medieval Latin smaltum (“enamel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”). Doublet of smalt, smalto, and schmaltz.

発音

• (Received 発音, General American) enPR: ĕ-mālʹ, IPA^(key): /ɛˈmeɪl/
• Rhymes: -eɪl

名詞

email (複数形 emails)

1. (obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).
   • 1579 January 11, George Puttenham, “[Appendix] Partheniades [No. 15; believed to have been presented to Elizabeth I of England on 1 January 1579 (Julian calendar)]”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poësy (Miscellanea Poetica Anglicana Antiqua; 1), volume I, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], published 1811, →OCLC, page xxxiv:

     Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to redd emayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!

   • 1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: Printed by Iohn Danter for William Iones, […], →OCLC, signature Diii; republished in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Four Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Printed [by Hazell, Watson, and Viney] for private circulation only, 1883–1884, →OCLC, pages 242–243:

     It is reported, that the Pope long ſince gaue them [the people of Iceland] a diſpenſation to receiue the Sacrament in ale, inſomuch as for their vnceſſant froſts there, no wine but was turned to red emayle, as ſoone as euer it came amongſt them.

     In other words, the weather was so cold that wine froze and resembled red enamel.

   • 1684, [Samuel] Du Clos, “The Eighth Class. Of Cold Waters somewhat Aigre and Vinous, which Participate of a Salt Resembling the Nitre of the Ancients.”, in Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, Made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences, […] Now Made English, London: Printed for Henry Faithorne, and John Kersey […], →OCLC, pages 96–97:

     Another part of this Earth being mixt with an equal part of its Salt, and put on the Fire to melt, in part pierc'd thro the Crucible, which was found on the outside, as it were, lin'd with a Brown Email, and the inside of the Crucible was cover'd with a Clear-Red Email.

別の表記

• emayle

派生語

• email ink
• emailled (adjective)

関連する語

• email ombrant

参照

Further reading

• email on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Lamie, ameli, maile

名詞

e-mail (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 e-mails)

1. Alternative spelling of email.
   • 2004, Carlin, George, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 262:

     I finally figured out what e-mail is for. it's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to.

   • 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 57:

     She had been crushed for two whole days by an e-mail from her betrothed, which had announced that he had married a British woman.

派生語

• e-mail address

動詞

e-mail (三人称単数 現在形 e-mails, 現在分詞 e-mailing, 過去形および過去分詞形 e-mailed)

1. Alternative spelling of email

アナグラム

• Lamie, ameli, maile