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語源

Borrowed from Spanish aviso (“advice”). Doublet of advice.

名詞

aviso (plural avisos or avisoes)

1. Advisory; information; advice; intelligence.
   • c. 1638 May 13 (date licensed; Gregorian calendar), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Ladies Triall. […], London: […] E. G. for Henry Shephard, […], published 1639, →OCLC, Act I, signature B, recto:

     I am not foot-poaſt, / No pedlar of Aviſo's, no monopoliſt / Of forged Corantos, monger of Gazets.

2. A kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication; an advice boat, or dispatch boat.
3. A mid-sized colonial warship

同意語

• adviso

Further reading

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