英和和英

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈɒbɪt/, /ˈəʊbɪt/

名詞

obit (複数形 obits)

1. (archaic) Death of a person. [14th–17th c.]
2. (Christianity, historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. [from 14th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 582:

     Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.

3. A record of a person's death. [from 15th c.]

派生語

語源 2

Clipping of obituary.

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊbɪt/, /əˈbɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

名詞

obit (複数形 obits)

1. (colloquial) An obituary.
   • 2010 December 9, Roy Greenslade, “Don't laugh - new TV show is set on a newspaper obits desk”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     So a proposed US series, called Circling the Drain, is certainly breaking new ground. It involves a 25-year-old reporter (played by Caprica's Alessandra Torresani) who is reassigned from a paper's style section to its obits desk.

アナグラム

• B. I. O. T., biot

Latin

動詞

obit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of obeō