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発音

• enPR: blām, IPA: /bleɪm/
• 韻: -eɪm

語源 1

From 中期英語 blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Late Latin blastēmāre, variant of blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blaspheme. Displaced native 古期英語 tǣling (“blame”) and tǣlan (“to blame”).

名詞

blame (uncountable)

1. Censure.

   Synonyms: dispraise, disapprobation, disapproval; see also Thesaurus:condemnation, Thesaurus:criticism

   Blame came from all directions.

2. Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

   The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.

3. Responsibility for something meriting censure.

   They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.

4. (computing) A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

派生語

参考

• fault

語源 2

From 中期英語 blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from 中期英語 wīten, from 古期英語 wītan).

動詞

blame (third-person singular simple present blames, present participle blaming, simple past and past participle blamed)

1. (transitive, usually followed by "for") To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).

   Synonyms: hold to account, hold someone responsible, hold someone accountable; see also Thesaurus:blame

   The student driver was blamed for the accident.

   After what happened at the wedding, I wouldn't blame you if you never spoke to them again.

   • 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 8:

     These peculiarities of Dorothea's character caused Mr Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighbouring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.

   • 1919, Saki, ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace:

     That was the year that Sir Richard was writing his volume on Domestic Life in Tartary. The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.

2. (transitive, with "on") To assert the cause of some bad event.

   We blamed the accident on the student driver.

   • 1985 December 23, Prince, “Manic Monday”, in Different Light‎, performed by The Bangles:

     Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine
     And if I had an airplane, I still couldn't make it on time
     'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
     Blame it on the train, but the boss is already there

3. To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

   Synonyms: reproach, shend, take to task, upbraid, fault, find fault; see also Thesaurus:criticize

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].

   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 106:

     I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.

4. (obsolete) To bring into disrepute.

   Synonyms: besmirch, blacken, disgrace; see also Thesaurus:defame

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.

Conjugation

派生語

形容詞

blame (not comparable)

1. euphemism of damn (intensifier)
   • 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:

     "He yarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em."

   • 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Star-splitter.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 27:

     “What do you want with one of those blame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!”

アナグラム

• Amble, Embla, Lambe, Mabel, Mable, Melba, amble, belam, melba

別の表記

• blam (rare)

発音

• IPA: /ˈblaːm(ə)/

名詞

blame (uncountable)

1. criticism, condemnation
2. accusation (especially legal)
3. blame, culpability
4. offence, misdeed
5. imperfection, downside
6. disrepute, dishonour
7. blasphemy, irreverence

派生した語

• English: blame
• Scots: blame

参照

• “blāme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

動詞

blame

1. alternative form of blamen