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語源

From 中期英語 suffisen, from Middle French souffire, from Latin sufficiō (“supply, be adequate”), from sub (“under”) + faciō (“do, make”). Cognate with French suffire.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /səˈfaɪs/
• (英国発音) IPA: /səˈfʌɪs/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈsʌ.fɪs/
• IPA: (obsolete) /səˈfaɪz/
• (General Australian) IPA: /səˈfɑes/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /səˈfaɪs/, [səˈfɑe̯s]
• 韻: -aɪs, -ɪs

動詞

suffice (third-person singular simple present suffices, present participle sufficing, simple past and past participle sufficed)

1. (intransitive) To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.

   For this plum cake, two eggs should suffice.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     To recount almighty works, / What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?

2. (transitive) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.

   A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.

   • 1838, The Church of England quarterly review, page 203:

     Lord Brougham's salary would have sufficed more than ninety Prussian judges.

3. (archaic) To furnish; to supply adequately.

   During the festival, the temple suffices food to the beggars.

   The king sufficed his army with food and weapons before the great battle.

使用する際の注意点

• Commonly used in the phrases suffice to say or suffice it to say.
• Mostly used in modal verb constructions, such as: Half a loaf per day will/should suffice. This is much more common than the direct form Half a loaf per day suffices.

同意語

• (be enough) work, do

派生語

関連する語

• satisfice
• sufficient

参照

Further reading

• “suffice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “suffice”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “suffice”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Cuffies, cuffies

動詞

suffice

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sufficiō