intrigueとは

語源

Borrowed from French intrigue, from Italian intricare, from Latin intrīcō (“I entangle, perplex, embarrass”). Doublet of intricate.

発音

• (noun) enPR: ĭn'trēg, IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɹiːɡ/
• (verb) enPR: ĭntrēg', IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɹiːɡ/
• 韻: -iːɡ

名詞

intrigue (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 intrigues)

1. A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
   • Thomas Carlyle

     […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]

2. The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
3. Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
   • 1976, John Harold Wilson, Court Satires of the Restoration (page 245)

     In 1679 and 1680 there were persistent rumors of an intrigue between Mary, Lady Grey, and the Duke of Monmouth.

動詞

intrigue (三人称単数 現在形 intrigues, 現在分詞 intriguing, 過去形および過去分詞形 intrigued)

1. (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
2. (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
   • 2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 106:

     Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.

3. (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
4. (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
   • Dr. J. Scott

     How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!

関連する語

• intricacy
• intricate
• intriguer
• intriguery
• intriguing
• intriguingly

参照

• intrigue in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• intrigue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913