entireとは

語源

From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer, from in- (“not”) + tangō (“touch”). Doublet of integer.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtaɪə/, /ənˈtaɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/, /ənˈtaɪɚ/
• 韻: -aɪə(ɹ)

形容詞

entire (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.

   We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.

2. (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
3. (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
4. (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
5. (of a male animal) Not gelded.
6. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
   • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

     pure fear and entire cowardice

   • Clarendon

     No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.

7. Internal; interior.

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

派生語

• entirety

名詞

entire (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 entires)

1. (now まれに) The whole of something; the entirety.
   • 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:

     In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 19:

     ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’

2. An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
   • 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)

     He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.

3. (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
4. Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.

アナグラム

• entier, nerite, triene