spectatorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• spectatour (obsolete)

語源

Borrowed from Latin spectātor, from frequentative verb spectō (“watch”), from speciō (“look at”). Equivalent to spectate +‎ -or. Doublet of speculator.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: spĕk.tāʹtə, IPA: /spɛkˈteɪtə/
• (米国発音) enPR: spĕkʹtā.tər, IPA: /ˈspɛkteɪtɚ/
• 韻: -eɪtə(ɹ)

名詞

spectator (plural spectators)

1. One who watches an event; especially, an event held outdoors.

   The cheering spectators watched the fireworks.

   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”

2. One who observes, sees, or views something; an observer.
   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:

     The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.

同意語

• audience
• observer
• crowd

派生語

• spect-actor
• spectate
• spectator chair
• spectatorship
• spectator ion
• spectator ligand
• spectator sport

アナグラム

• attercops, caprettos, catopters

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /spekˈtaː.tor/, [s̠pɛkˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /spekˈta.tor/, [spekˈt̪äːt̪or]

名詞

spectātor m (genitive spectātōris); third declension

1. spectator, watcher
2. examiner, judge, critic

   Synonyms: arbiter, iūdex, disceptātor

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

• speciō
• spectō
• spectus

派生した語

参照

• “spectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spectator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an astronomer: spectator siderum, rerum caelestium or astrologus