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• ingénue

語源

Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈɑnʒənu/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌænʒeɪˈnjuː/

名詞

ingenue (plural ingenues)

1. An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.

   Hypernym: person

   Antonyms: femme fatale; see also Thesaurus:vamp

   Near-synonym: girl next door

   • 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 6 December 2023:

     She was seen as a gifted pop-country ingenue when, in a now infamous moment, Kanye West interrupted Swift onstage at the 2009 VMAs while she was accepting an award. The incident set in motion a chain of events that would shape the next decade of both artists’ lives.

2. (theater, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.

   Hypernym: stock character

   Coordinate terms: girl next door, femme fatale, damsel in distress

   • 2012, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969‎, McFarland, →ISBN, page 396:

     The intelligent and talented blonde who was fluent in English, French and Spanish was interested in art and joined a local theater group to work on set designs but wound up on stage playing an ingenue in Liliom and was spotted by director Vincente Minnelli.

3. (rare) Misspelling of ingenu.
   • 1951 June 11, Harold L. Ickes, “Acheson, Political Ingenue”, in The New Republic, volume 124, number 24, page 17:

     Mr. Acheson's failure as Secretary of State ... has been an inability to understand people or to be understood by them.

   • 2002 Spring, Joshua David Gonsalves, “What Makes Lord Byron Go? Strong Determinations-Public/Private-of Imperial Errancy”, in Studies in Romanticism, volume 41, number 1, Psychoanalytic, page 40fn:

     I cannot resist citing, slightly out of context, another bit of Baudelaire: "Satan s'est fait ingénu" (Satan has made himself into an ingenue [Oeuvres Completes 640])

   • 2006 September, Kevin McFadden, “It's a Cue, the Name”, in Poetry, volume 188, number 5, page 417:

     America why callow ingenue bile?

使用する際の注意点

• The corresponding masculine term, ingenu, is poorly known, and so the feminine term is sometimes used in a gender-neutral or masculine way. (See the citation from 2002, where the explicit masculine French is feminized in English.)

派生語

関連する語

• ingenu, ingenuous

Further reading

• ingénue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• U engine, unigene, genuine, eugenin, Guienne

参照

• “ingenue”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ingenue”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ingenue”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.