minatoryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Middle French minatoire, from Late Latin minātōrius, from Latin minor, minārī (“to threaten, speak または act menacingly, hold out the threat of”, verbal derivative of minae, 複数形 only, "threats, menaces, portents of evil") + -tōrius, deverbal adjective suffix originally forming derivatives from agent nouns ending in -tōr-, -tor; minae probably, if originally "projecting points, overhang," noun derivative of the verbal base *men- seen in ēminēre (“to stick out, protrude”), of uncertain origin.

Cognate to menace.

形容詞

minatory (comparative more minatory, superlative most minatory)

1. Threatening, menacing.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book または page number):

     [T]he Place de Greve, with its thirty thousand Regulars, its whole irregular Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, is one minatory mass of clear or rusty steel […]

   • 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, 3rd edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., […], published 1892, OCLC 84167364:

     Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.

   • 1888, Henry James, The Reverberator, Macmillan and Co.:

     [H]er father quietly addressed a few words, by letter, to George Flack. This communication was not of a minatory order; it expressed on the contrary the loose sociability which was the essence of Mr. Dosson's nature.

   • 1995, P. D. James, The Black Tower

     She shook hands firmly with Adam Dalgleish and gave him a minatory glance as if welcoming a new patient from whom she expected trouble

   • 1997, Edward Gorey, The Haunted Tea-Cosy

     In the cottage next to the post office Alma Crumble broke her wrist stirring batter, at which the Bug declared in a minatory tone that 'That was enough of that.'

同意語

• minacious, ominous, sinister

参照

• Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day: The Word of the Day for November 24, 2007 is: minatory