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語源

From Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “significance”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “to present; to indicate”), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈɛmfəsɪs/
• IPA: [ˈɛɱfəsɪs], [ˈeɱfəsɪs], [ˈɛɱfəsəs], [ˈeɱfəsəs]

名詞

emphasis (countable and uncountable, plural emphases)

1. Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.

   He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.

2. Special attention or prominence given to something.

   Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.

   Put emphasis on the advantages rather than the drawbacks.

   • 1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18:

     The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time.

3. Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.

   He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.

4. (phonology) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
5. (typography) The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

派生語

関連する語

アナグラム

• misshape

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɛm.pʰa.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɛm.fa.s̬is]

名詞

emphasis f (genitive emphasis); third declension

1. emphasis

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

参照

• “emphasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “emphasis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.