typicalとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek τυπικός (tupikós, “of または pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic +‎ -al and type +‎ -ical.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪpɪkl̩/
• ハイフネーション: typ‧i‧cal

形容詞

typical (comparative more typical, superlative most typical)

1. Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
2. Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
3. Normal, average; to be expected.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

4. (taxonomy) Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.
   • 2013 September 9, Raymond G. Gagné; John C. Moser, “The North American gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of hackberries (Cannabaceae: Celtis spp.)”, in Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, volume 49:

     Celticecis species are definitely known only from the typical subgenus of Celtis, distributed through much of the Holarctic Region.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:common

反意語

• atypical

派生語

• typicality
• typically
• typicalness

関連する語

• typal
• type
• typic