immolateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin immolō (“I sacrifice”) (過去分詞 immolātus).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/, /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/

動詞

immolate (三人称単数 現在形 immolates, 現在分詞 immolating, 過去形および過去分詞形 immolated)

1. To kill as a sacrifice.
   • 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden:

     A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.

2. To kill or destroy, especially by fire.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.

派生語

• self-immolate, self-immolation

関連する語

• immolation

アナグラム

• ammolite

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im.moˈlaː.te/, [ɪmːɔˈɫ̪äːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.moˈla.te/, [imːoˈläːt̪e]

Participle

immolāte

1. vocative masculine singular of immolātus