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語源

From Old French Rogier, from the Frankish equivalent of 古期英語 Hrōþgār (see Hroðgar), from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþigaizaz (“fame-spear”). Compare also Rutger.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹɒd͡ʒ.ə/
• (General American) enPR: rŏʹjər, IPA: /ˈɹɑ.d͡ʒɚ/
• (Ghanaian) IPA: [ˈroː.dʒɐ]
• 韻: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: Rog‧er

名詞

Roger

1. (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter R.

   Synonym: Romeo

固有名詞

Roger (plural Rogers)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir / To Roger, Earl of March, who was the son / Of Edmund Mortimer.

   • 1985, Ruth Rendell, The New Girlfriend: The Fen Hall, pages 124, 127:

     Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - -
     Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!" "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle.

   • 2023 October 18, Damien Gayle, “Greta Thunberg charged with public order offence after London oil protest”, in The Guardian‎:

     Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes.

2. (rare compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. (dialectal, obsolete) The Devil; Satan.
4. Jolly Roger (pirate flag)
   • 1906, Bret Harte, Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine, page 410:

     The escaped convicts who had captured the Arrow even ran up the “Roger,” the black flag with the white skull […]

派生語

関連する語

• Hodge
• Rodger
• Rog

アナグラム

• Reorg., gorer, reorg