itemとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.təm/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.təm/, [ˈaɪ̯.ɾəm], [ˈaɪ̯.ɾm̩]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɪ.təmz/, [ˈɑɪ.ɾəmz]
  • ハイフネーション: item

名詞

item (複数形 items)

1. A distinct physical object.

   Tweezers are great for manipulating small items.

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects   […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters  […] . But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.

2. (by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.
3. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.

   the items in a bill

   In response to the first item, we deny all wrongdoing.

   • 2001, David L. Lieber and Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1143:

     Beyond being mere items of a legal code, they [the mitzvot] are the very basis of the relationship that God and the people Israel have established.

4. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.

   The exam has 100 items, each of which includes a correct response and three distractors.

5. A matter for discussion in an agenda.

   The first item for discussion is the budget for next year's picnic.

6. (informal) Two people who are having a romantic or sexual relationship with each other.

   Jack and Jill are an item.

   • 2010, Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris, Baby:

     Are we an item? Girl, quit playin' / "We're just friends," what are you sayin'?

8. A short article in a newspaper.

   an item concerning the weather

9. (obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     A secret item was given to some of the bishops […] to absent themselves.

10. (India) Short for item girl.
    • 2017, Nandita Chaudhary, Pernille Hviid, Giuseppina Marsico, Resistance in Everyday Life: Constructing Cultural Experiences, page 246:

      In this chapter, we will attempt to trace the course of initiation into the classical arts, from the self-taught gyrations of Bollywood items to the serious rigours of a classical Indian dance form.

同意語

• (object): article, object, thing
• (line of text having a legal または semantic meaning):
• (matter for discussion): subject, topic
• (two people who are having a relationship with each other): couple
• (psychometrics): test/assessment question

下位語

派生語

動詞

item (三人称単数 現在形 items, 現在分詞 iteming, 過去形および過去分詞形 itemed)

1. (transitive) To make a note of.

関連する語

• itemize

副詞

item (not comparable)

1. likewise

アナグラム

• -time, METI, emit, it me, mite, time

Latin

語源

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *éy and *só. Compare ita and itidem.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tem/, [ˈɪt̪ɛ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tem/, [ˈiːt̪em]

副詞

item (not comparable)

1. just like (in a comparison)
   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 5.4:

     HĒGIŌ. Salvē, exoptāte gnāte mī. TYNDARUS. Hem, quid 'gnāte mī'?
     Attat, sciō quor tē patrem assimules esse et mē fīlium:
     quia mī item ut parentēs lūcis dās tuendī cōpiam.

     HEGIO. Hello, my wished-for son. TYNDARUS. Huh, what 'my son'?
     Alas, I know why you act as if you were a father and I your son:
     because you give me the means to see the light, just like parents do.

   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Orator 60:

     Ita fit ut nōn item in ōrātiōne ut in versū numerus exstet, idque quod numerōsum in ōrātiōne dīcitur nōn semper numerō fīat, sed nōnnunquam aut concinnitāte aut cōnstructiōne verbōrum.

     So it turns out that there isn't a metre in prose just like in verse, and that which in oration is called 'metrical' is not always caused by metre, but also on occasion by the euphony and construction of the words.

2. likewise, also, further

派生した語

• → French: item
• → Middle English: item
  • English: item
  • Scots: eetem

参考

参照

• “item”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• item in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• item in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette