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語源 1

Borrowed from Spanish viva and Italian viva.

間投詞

viva!

1. Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support).
   • 1986 February 8, Emma Whitby, “Old Testament Claptrap?”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 29, page 5:

     The message has been mostly perverted from the moment of his death, but it hasn't been invalidated. So, viva Jesus of Nazareth and joy to the world!

動詞

viva (third-person singular simple present vivas, present participle vivaing, simple past and past participle vivaed)

1. (ambitransitive, dated) To cheer, applaud
   • 1841, Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar, A winter in the Azores, and a summer at the baths of the Furnas:

     ...the people clapped and vivaed, groaned and hooted, as they were pleased or disappointed, until at length the intense excitement began to subside...

   • 1859, The Atlantic Monthly:

     The next evening Paine went to the theatre. The state-box had been prepared for him. The house rose and vivaed as he entered.

   • 1857, George Payne R James, Leonora d'Orco:

     ...did you not hear how the beasts last night were cheering and vivaing those French heretics?

名詞

viva (plural vivas)

1. A shout of applause.
   • 1855, Mayne Reid, The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico, page 89:

     When the cibolero returned to the plain, he was received with a fresh burst of vivas, and kerchiefs were waved to greet him.

語源 2

Shortened from viva voce, Latin for “live voice”

発音

• enPR: vī'və, IPA: /ˈvaɪ.və/
• 韻: -aɪvə

名詞

viva (plural vivas)

1. An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification.

動詞

viva (third-person singular simple present vivas, present participle vivaing, simple past and past participle vivaed)

1. (transitive) To subject to an examination of this kind.
   • 1931, Henry Sanderson Furniss Sanderson, Memories of sixty years:

     I was vivaed by Charles Cannan, who was then a Fellow of Trinity...

   • 1972, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History:

     Throughout his life, he took college responsibilities seriously, he came to All Souls whenever possible on weekends, he vivaed or interviewed candidates...

   • 2009, Gianni Paganini, Jose Raimundo Maia Neto, Renaissance Scepticisms:

     My doctoral thesis was vivaed three years before the publication of the revised and expanded edition of Richard H. Popkin's work...

参考

• vis viva

形容詞

vīva

1. inflection of vīvus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

形容詞

vīvā

1. ablative feminine singular of vīvus

参照

• "viva", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)