versusとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːsəs/, /ˈvɜːsɪz/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝsəs/, /ˈvɝsəz/, sometimes IPA^(key): /ˈvɝs/
• 韻: -ɜː(r)səs

• Homophone: verses

接続詞

versus

1. Used to link two or more opposing or contrasting elements.

同意語

• vs, vs., v, v.

前置詞

versus

1. against, in opposition to.

   It is the Packers versus the Steelers in the Super Bowl.

2. compared with, as opposed to.
   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.

   • 2005, Robert E. Weiss, Modeling Longitudinal Data, Springer, →ISBN, page 104:

     If, for example, we select random people entering a workout gym, versus if we pick random people entering a hospital, we will get very different samples.

3. Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (または appellant または the like), and the second indicates the defendant (または respondent または the like).

   Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.

同意語

• (especially the non-legal senses): vs, vs. (abbreviation)
• (especially the legal sense): v, v. (abbreviation)

関連する語

• vertex
• subvert
• invert
• convert
• evert
• verse

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwer.sus/, [ˈwɛr.sʊs]

語源 1

Perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”).

別の表記

• vorsus

Participle

versus m (feminine versa, neuter versum); first/second declension

1. turned, changed, having been turned

Inflection

First/second declension.

派生語

• anniversārius
• contrōversus
• prōrsus/ prōsus
• ūniversus

語源 2

Adverbial use of versus (“turned”).

別の表記

• versum
• vorsum
• vorsus

副詞

versus (not comparable)

1. towards, turned to or in the direction of, facing

派生語

派生した語

• Catalan: vers
• English: versus, verso
• French: vers, versus
• Corsican: versu
• Italian: verso, versus
• Portuguese: verso, versus

語源 3

Action noun from vertō + tus.

別の表記

• vorsus

名詞

versus m (genitive versūs); fourth declension

1. a furrow (turned earth)
2. (transf.) a line, row
   1. (partic.) a line of writing, a verse
      • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.14

        Magnum ibi numerum versuum ediscere dicuntur.

        They are said there to learn by heart a great number of verses.

      Si versus horum duorum poetarum neglegetis, magna parte litterarum carebitis.

      If you neglect the verses of these two poets, you will miss a great part of literature.

3. a land measure (= πλέθρον (pléthron))
4. (dance) a turn, step

Inflection

Fourth declension.

派生語

• versiculus

派生した語

語源 4

Perfect passive participle of verrō (“to sweep”).

Participle

versus m (feminine versa, neuter versum); first/second declension

1. swept

Inflection

First/second declension.

参照

• versus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• versus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• versus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• versus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sing the praises of some one (not canere aliquem: alicuius laudes versibus persequi
    
  • to celebrate some one's exploits in song: alicuius res gestas versibus ornare, celebrare
    
  • (ambiguous) in all directions: quoquo versus; in omnes partes
    
  • (ambiguous) to advance in the direction of Rome: Romam versus proficisci
    
  • (ambiguous) to write poetry: versus facere, scribere
    
  • (ambiguous) to write poetry with facility: carmina , versus fundere (De Or. 3. 50)
    
  • (ambiguous) to recite a poem, line with appropriate action: carmen, versum agere