moreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English more, from 古期英語 māra (“more”), from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“many”).

Cognate with Scots mair (“more”), Saterland Frisian moor (“more”), West Frisian mear (“more”), Dutch meer (“more”), Low German mehr (“more”), German mehr (“more”), Danish mere (“more”), Swedish mera (“more”), Norwegian Bokmål mer (“more”), Norwegian Nynorsk meir (“more”), Icelandic meiri, meira (“more”).

別の表記

• (くだけた用法 または 一般的ではない用法) mo, mo'
• (インターネット・スラング) moar

限定詞

more

1. comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)

   There are more ways to do this than I can count.

   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 411, number 8891:

     One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

3. comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)

   There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.

   • 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3:

     Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

4. Additional; further.

   If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.

   More people are arriving.

   I want more soup.

   I need more time.

5. Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.

   He is more than the ten years he spent behind bars at our local prison, as he is a changed man and his past does not define him.

反意語

• fewer
• less

派生語

副詞

more

1. To a greater degree or extent. [from 10^thc.]

   I like cake, but I like chocolate more.

   I could no more climb that than fly!

   More advanced students.

   I have more than carried out my obligation.

   I have no complaints and no more does my mom.

   • 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:

     Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

3. Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13^thc.]

   You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.

   • 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

     Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

4. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. [from 10^thc.]
   • 1470–1485 (date produced)​, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XV, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

     Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

5. (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. [from 13^thc.; standard until 18^thc.]

   I was more better at English than you.

派生語

• more or less
• more so

代名詞

more

1. A greater number or quantity (of something).

   We're running out of napkins. I should have bought more.

   There isn't enough salt in this. You need to add more.

2. An extra or additional quantity (of something).

   There aren't many people here yet, but more should be arriving soon.

   • 2016, Arun P. Mukherjee, “English Studies in Contemporary India” in M. Sridhar, Sunita Mishra (editors), Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates, page 254:

     Speaking about Canada, where I teach, while the canon remains the raison d’etre of the discipline, some changes have come about and more are in the offing.

派生語

形容詞

more

1. comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)

   Last year’s applications received from new and returning students were more than each of the previous four years.

2. comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)

参考

• most

語源 2

From Middle English more, moore (“root”), from 古期英語 more, moru (“carrot, parsnip”) from Proto-West Germanic *morhā, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ (“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *merk- (“edible herb, tuber”).

Akin to Old Saxon moraha (“carrot”), Old High German morha, moraha (“root of a plant または tree”) (German Möhre (“carrot”), Morchel (“mushroom, morel”)). More at morel.

別の表記

• moor (dialectal)

名詞

more (複数形 mores)

1. (obsolete) A carrot; a parsnip.
2. (dialectal) A root; stock.
3. (dialectal) A plant; flower; shrub.

語源 3

From Middle English moren, from the noun. See above.

動詞

more (三人称単数 現在形 mores, 現在分詞 moring, 過去形および過去分詞形 mored)

1. (transitive) To root up.

アナグラム

• Mero, Omer, Orem, Orme, Rome, erom, mero, mero-, moer, omer

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.re/, [ˈmoːrɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.re/, [ˈmɔːre]

名詞

mōre m

1. ablative singular of mōs (“manner, custom”)

参照

• “more”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *morhā, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ (“carrot”). Cognate with Old Saxon moraha (“carrot”), Old High German moraha (German Möhre).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.re/

名詞

more f

1. carrot
2. parsnip

語形変化

関連する語

• moru

派生した語

• Middle English: more, moore, morre
  • English: more (dialectal)
• → Welsh: moron

接尾辞

-more

1. (archaic) Used to form a comparative of certain adjectives and adverbs, usually ending in -er.
2. Used for placenames; variant of moor.

使用する際の注意点

• No longer productive in contemporary English except archaically.

派生語

• innermore
• uppermore

参考

• -most

アナグラム

• Mero, Omer, Orem, Orme, Rome, erom, mero, mero-, moer, omer