neitherとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Alteration (after either) of nauther, from Middle English nawther, noþer, naðer (whence also Modern nor), from 古期英語 nāwþer, contraction of nāhwæþer, corresponding to no + whether. Compare Latin neuter (“neither”).

発音

• enPR: nīth′ə(r), nēth′ə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪð.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈniːð.ə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪðɚ/, /ˈniðɚ/
• 韻: -iːðə(ɹ), -aɪðə(ɹ)
• See either for pronunciation by region

限定詞

neither

1. Not one of two; not either.

   Neither definition seems correct.

   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     She was neither learned nor intelligent, but she contrived to dress both herself and her daughter out of a meagre jointure, supplying with her clever fingers what her purse could not buy; […] .

代名詞

neither

1. Not either one of two.

   I've tried on both shirts, but neither fits properly.

使用する際の注意点

Unlike the pronoun none, the pronoun neither is always singular.

接続詞

neither

1. Not either (used with nor).
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

   Neither you nor I like it.

   Neither now, nor ever will he forsake his mother.

副詞

neither (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive) Similarly not.

   Neither can she stop him, nor can he stop her.

   Just as you would not correct it, neither would I.