portraitとは

意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• pourtraict (廃れた用法)

語源

From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin prōtrahō.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːtɹɪt/, (まれに) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːtɹeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹtɹət/, (まれに) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹtɹeɪt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊɹtɹət/, (まれに) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊɹtɹeɪt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈpoətɹɪt/, (まれに) IPA^(key): /ˈpoətɹeɪt/

名詞

portrait (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 portraits)

1. (countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
   • a. 1792, Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts

     In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.

2. (countable, figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.

   The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.

3. (computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

反意語

• (print mode または selection): landscape
• (print mode または selection): profile

関連する語

• portray

動詞

portrait (三人称単数 現在形 portraits, 現在分詞 portraiting, 過去形および過去分詞形 portraited)

1. (obsolete) To portray; to draw.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, OCLC 890162479:

     But all as in most exquisite pictures, they vse to blaze and portrait, not only the daintie lineaments or beautie, but also round about it to shadowe the rude thickets and craggy clifts

形容詞

portrait (not comparable)

1. Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

   a portrait bust; a portrait statue