imprimaturとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmeɪ.tə/, /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmɑː.tə/, /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmɑː.tʊə/, /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmeɪ.tʊə/, /ɪmˈpɹɪmətə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmɑ.tɚ/, /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmeɪ.tɚ/, /ɪmpɹɪˈmɑtʊɹ/, /ɪmˈpɹɪmətɚ/, /ɪmˈpɹɪmətʊɹ/
• ハイフネーション: im‧pri‧ma‧tur

名詞

imprimatur (plural imprimaturs or imprimantur)

1. (printing) An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
   • 1664, John Wilson, The Cheats, publication info page:

     The Cheats · A Comedy · Written in the Year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. By John Wilson

   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 8:

     Sometimes 5 Imprimaturs are ſeen together dialogue-wiſe in the Piatza of one Title page, complementing and ducking each other with their ſhav'n reverences, whether the Author, who ſtands by in perplexity at the foot of his Epiſtle, ſhall to the Preſſe or to the ſpunge.

2. (by extension) Any mark of official approval.

   Synonyms: approval, authorization, endorsement

   • 1988, New York Times, Gay fiction comes home‎:

     Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination.

   • 2015 March 30, Michael Billington, “Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language”, in The Guardian‎:

     Even with the imprimatur of Tynan and Hobson, the play was not an instant hit.

   • 2024 May 18, Jane Shaw, “When belief is a business”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:

     The author suggests that Grace is hoping to meet at church a respectable marriage candidate who will have the imprimatur of her pastor and the church community.

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動詞

imprimātur

1. third-person singular present passive subjunctive of imprimō