fore-tellとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

c. 1300, from 中期英語 foretellen, equivalent to fore- +‎ tell.

発音

• enPR: fôr-tĕlʹ, IPA: /fɔɹˈtɛl/
  • (General Australian) IPA: [foːˈteɫ]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: [fɔːˈtɛɫ]
  • (米国発音) IPA: [fɔɹˈtɛɫ]
• 韻: -ɛl
• ハイフネーション: fore‧tell

動詞

foretell (third-person singular simple present foretells, present participle foretelling, simple past and past participle foretold)

1. (ambitransitive) To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy.
   • 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 2”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

     Deeds then undone me faithful tongue foretold.

   • 1741, Conyers Middleton, The Life of Cicero:

     Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.

   • 2025 September 8, Roger Cohen, “French Prime Minister Bayrou Loses Confidence Vote, Putting Pressure on Macron”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     This was a demise foretold. Fatalistic in the face of a parliamentary impasse, Mr. Bayrou had, even before the debate began, invited his entourage to a “convivial moment,” or farewell soirée, this evening.

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2. (transitive) To tell (a person) of the future.
   • 1739, Edward Button, Rudiments of Ancient History:

     […] there came to him a Person named Saul, whom Samuel had never before seen; but God made him know it was the same he had foretold him of.

同意語

• foresay
• forespeak

派生語

• foretellable
• foreteller

関連する語

• foretale

参考

• forecast
• foresee
• forewarn

参照

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

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