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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /leɪt/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /læɪt/
• (Scotland) IPA: /let/
• (Wales, without the pane–pain merger) IPA: /leːt/
• 韻: -eɪt

形容詞

late (comparative later, superlative latest)

1. Near the end of a period of time.

   The seedlings appeared to be coming along nicely until a late frost killed them.

   The meeting is convened for late morning.

   In Southern U.S., "evening" is used for middle to late afternoon.

2. Specifically, near the end of the day.

   It was getting late and I was tired.

3. (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.

   Late Latin is less fully inflected than Classical Latin.

4. Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.

   Synonym: tardy

   The flowers were late in blooming because of the prolonged cold weather.

   Panos was so late that he arrived at the meeting after Antonio, who had the excuse of being in hospital for most of the night.

   The heavy snow made all the trains late.

5. Levied as a surcharge on a payment which has not arrived by a specified deadline.

   The power company suspended late fees during the pandemic.

6. Not having had an expected menstrual period.

   I'm late, honey. Could you buy a test?

   • 1992 February 5, Larry Charles, Elaine Pope, “The Fix-Up”, in Seinfeld, spoken by Cynthia (Maggie Wheeler):

     I am very worried. I am never late.

7. (not comparable, euphemistic) Recently deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)

   Her late husband had left her well provided for.

   Mary was entitled to the crown by her late father’s testament.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 181:

     To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.

   • 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):

     This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!

   • 2022 February 18, Dan Erickson, “Good News About Hell”, in Severance, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ricken (Michael Chernus):

     Mark’s late wife, Gemma, was an educator as well. Russian literature.

   • 2022 December 14, Nadia Khomami, quoting Iman, “‘He’s not my “late” husband’: Iman speaks of grief over death of David Bowie”, in The Guardian‎:

     “He is not my ‘late husband’. He is my husband,” she said, before discussing how the couple had managed to retain their independent identities while together.

8. (dated) Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.

   the late bishop of London

   the late administration

   • 1640, Edvvard Reynoldes, A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soul of Man. With the severall Dignities and Corruptions thereunto belonging., London: […] R. H. for Robert Bostock, […]:

     By Edvvard Reynoldes, late Preacher to the Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inne: And now Rector of the Church of Braunſton in Northamptonſhire.

   • 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

     It was a lonely place enough, even in all its rustic beauty, for so bright a creature as the late Miss Lucy Graham, but the generous baronet had transformed the interior of the gray old mansion into a little palace for his young wife, and Lady Audley seemed as happy as a child surrounded by new and costly toys.

9. Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.

   the late war

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:

     OLd Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaſter,
     Haſt thou according to thy oath and band
     Brought hither Henry Herford thy bold ſon:
     Heere to make good yͤ boiſtrous late appeale,
     Which then our leyſure would not let vs heare,
     Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray?

   • 1914, Robert Frost, “A Hundred Collars”, in North of Boston:

     Lancaster bore him—such a little town, / Such a great man. It doesn't see him often / Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead / And sends the children down there with their mother […]

10. (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.

使用する際の注意点

• (deceased): Late in this sense qualifies named individuals (in phrases like the late Mary Smith). In this sense, it generally is confined to usage with the person's full name, or a title, relationship, etc., that would be adequate by itself to identify the person: the late Mary Smith; the late queen; his late wife; the late Mary, Queen of Scots; but in most cases not the late Mary.

派生した語

• → Malayalam: ലേറ്റ് (lēṟṟŭ)
• → Tamil: லேட் (lēṭ), லேட்டு (lēṭṭu)

名詞

late (plural lates)

1. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
   • 2007, Paul W Browning, The Good Guys Wear Blue:

     At about 11 pm one night in Corporation Street my watch were on van patrol and Yellow Watch were on late as usual.

反意語

• early

副詞

late (comparative later, superlative latest)

1. After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.

   We drove as fast as we could, but we still arrived late.

2. Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.

   Colonel Easterwood, late of the 34th Carbines, was a guest at the dinner party.

   The Hendersons will all be there / Late of Pablo Fanque's Fair / What a scene!

   Linda Smith, late of 13 Oxford Street.

3. Not long ago; just now, recently.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 181, column 1:

     He ſhall doe this, or elſe I doe recant / The pardon that I late pronounced heere.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 20:

     Tears of the widower, when he sees
     ⁠A late-lost form that sleep reveals,
     ⁠And moves his doubtful arms, and feels
     Her place is empty, fall like these; […]

同意語

• (past a designated time): belatedly, tardy; see also Thesaurus:belatedly
• (formerly): erenow; see also Thesaurus:formerly
• (not long ago): freshly; see also Thesaurus:recently

派生語

参照

• 2009 April 3, Peter T. Daniels, "Re: Has 'late' split up into a pair of homonyms?", message-ID , alt.usage.english and sci.lang, Usenet.

アナグラム

• teal, tael, et. al, atel-, TEAl, Elta, TEAL, et al, Teal, tale, tela, leat, EATL, ETLA, et al.

発音

• IPA: /ˈlɑ.te/

副詞

late (comparative lator, superlative latost or latest)

1. slow(ly)
2. late

別の表記

• laite, latte, lete, leate

発音

• IPA: /laːt/, /lat/

形容詞

late

1. slow, sluggish, reluctant.

派生語

• latly

派生した語

• English: late
  • → Malayalam: ലേറ്റ് (lēṟṟŭ)
  • → Tamil: லேட் (lēṭ), லேட்டு (lēṭṭu)
• Geordie: lyet
• Scots: late
• Yola: laate

参照

• “lāt(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

From 古期英語 late.

別の表記

• lata, laite, latte, lete, læte, leate

発音

• IPA: /ˈlaːt(ə)/

副詞

late

1. slowly, reluctantly

派生した語

• English: late
• Yola: laate

参照

• “lāt(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 3

From Old Norse lát (“conduct, demeanour, voice, sound”, literally “let, letting, loss”) (from Proto-Germanic *lētiją (“behaviour”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēid-, *lēy- (“to leave, let”). Cognate with Middle Low German lāt (“outward appearance, gesture, manner”), 古期英語 lǣtan (“to let”). More at let.

名詞

late

1. Manner; behaviour; outward appearance or aspect.
2. A sound; voice.
   • c 1275-1499, King Alexander

     Than have we liking to lithe the lates of the foules.

関連する語

• lātus

参照

• “late”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “late”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the twigs are shooting out, spreading: rami late diffunduntur
    
  • to have a wide extent: late patere (also metaphorically vid. sect. VIII. 8)