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語源

From Middle English < Medieval Latin instrumentalis < instruere ("to build into, set up, construct, furnish," hence "to train") < in- ("on") + struere ("to put together, arrange, pile up, build, construct") < Proto-Indo-European *streu- (“to spread, extend, stretch out”).

形容詞

instrumental (comparative more instrumental, superlative most instrumental)

1. Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.

   He was instrumental in conducting the business.

   • The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth — Shakespeare, Hamlet, I,ii
2. (music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, especially a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music.
   • He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
   • Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds. — John Dryden
3. (grammar) Applied to a case expressing means or agency—and is generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms. It continues to be used in Slavic languages.

派生語

• instrumental error

関連する語

• instrumentation
• instrumentality
• instrumentive

名詞

instrumental (countable かつ uncountable; 複数形 instrumentals)

1. (uncountable, grammar) The instrumental case.
2. (countable, music) A composition without lyrics.

外部リンク

• instrumental in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• instrumental in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911