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語源

From 中期英語 especial, via Old French especial, from Latin specialis, from species (“appearance, form, beauty”), from specere (“to look”). Doublet of special. Related to species.

発音

• IPA: /ɛsˈpɛʃəl/
• 韻: -ɛʃəl
• ハイフネーション: es‧pe‧cial

形容詞

especial (comparative more especial, superlative most especial)

1. Exceptional in importance or significance; special.

   Pay especial attention to chapter five.

   an especial hatred of cats

   • 1941 July, “The Why and the Wherefore: Inner and Outer Distant Signals”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:

     [...] this is of especial value in foggy weather.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 5:

     Starting from this base list, a number of databases were systematically searched for terms, with especial effort taken to discover the earliest attestation possible[.]

2. Particular.

   acting with no especial goal

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 270:

     Only one modern picture was admitted, and that was a likeness of Constance, painted under her father's especial instructions.

使用する際の注意点

Especial is far less common than special, but they are not exact synonyms. Especial typically encompasses special, but also connotes some quality of being particular, separate, or chosen from among others.

派生語

関連する語

• special

アナグラム

• Speciale, calipees