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語源

From Anglo-Norman recapitulaciun et al., Middle French recapitulacion et al., or their source, from Late Latin recapitulatio (“summing up, summary”), from the participle stem of recapitulare (“recapitulate”), from re- + capitulum (“chapter, section”), diminutive of caput (“head”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌɹiːkəˌpɪtjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
• (米国発音) enPR: re·kə·pĭ·chə·lāʹshən, IPA: /ɹiː.kəˌpɪ.t͡ʃəˈleɪ.ʃ(ə)n/

名詞

recapitulation (countable and uncountable, plural recapitulations)

1. A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.

   Synonym: summary

   • 1957 July, D. S. M. Barrie, “Sixty Years of British Express Trains”, in Railway Magazine, pages 455-456:

     The dolorous effects of the second world war on train services, and its protracted legacies of over-age equipment and shortages of material for replacement, are too fresh in memory to require recapitulation here; […] .

2. (music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
3. (biology) The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
4. (theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 144:

     one would expect God's final purpose to be expressed in his created world, since the doctrine of recapitulation showed that this is where his plans had worked out before.

派生語

• recap
• recapitulation theory

関連する語

• recapitulate

Further reading

• recapitulation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia