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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈleɪ.tə/
• (米国発音) enPR: lāʹtər, IPA: /ˈleɪ.tɚ/, [ˈleɪ̯.ɾɚ]
• 韻: -eɪtə(ɹ)

副詞

later

1. comparative form of late: more late

   You came in late yesterday and today you came in even later.

2. Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).

   My roommate arrived first. I arrived later.

   I arrived later than my roommate.

3. At some unspecified time in the future.

   I wanted to do it now, but I’ll have to do it later.

4. (Manglish, Singlish) What if (something problematic or unanticipated happens); if not (something undesirable will happen).

   Compare Malay nanti (“later; if not”)

   Synonym: (Singlish) sekali

   Later you fall asleep how? ― What if you fall asleep?

同意語

• (afterward in time): afterwards, hereafter; see also Thesaurus:subsequently
• (at some unspecified time in the future): later on, someday; see also Thesaurus:one day

反意語

• earlier
• (antonym(s) of “At some unspecified time in the future”): once

派生語

形容詞

later

1. comparative form of late: more late

   Jim was later than John.

2. Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).

   The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.

   • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii:

     The eldest son was usually given the name of his paternal grandfather, later children those of other relatives.

3. Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)

   I felt some leg pain during the first mile of my run and I strained my calf two miles later.

4. At some time in the future.

   The meeting was adjourned to a later date.

反意語

• earlier

間投詞

later

1. (slang) See you later; goodbye.

   Later, dude.

派生語

アナグラム

• Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, ratel, taler, telar

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɫa.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈlaː.ter]

名詞

later m (genitive lateris); third declension

1. brick, tile
2. ingot, bar (of precious metal)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “later”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “later”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “later”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “later”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “later”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag