英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 statut, from Old French statut, from Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of Latin statutus, past participle of statuō (“to set up, establish”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈstatjuːt/, /ˈstat͡ʃuːt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈstæt͡ʃuːt/

名詞

statute (countable and uncountable, plural statutes)

1. A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body. [from ca. 1300s]

   The new statute limited working hours.

   Parliament passed a statute on environmental protection.

   criminal statute

   statute book

   • 1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:

     Despite criticisms which were made of the Railway Executive, it must be recalled that the general framework of the new railway set-up was established by statute, while this form of organisation was particularly well adapted for carrying out the unification of the railways—a very different thing from the purely political act of nationalisation, but an essential part of the objective of nationalisation.

2. A rule of an organization or institution. [from 1389]
3. (archaic, biblical) A law or decree made by a sovereign, or by God.
4. (law, historical) A (theoretical) type of statutory law specified as regulating a person or thing. [from 1791]
   1. Legal status of being subject to this.
5. (historical) A statute fair. [from before 1600]

等位語

• (written law as laid down by the legislature): regulation (written law as laid down by a regulatory agency of a governmental executive body)

派生語

参照

• “statute, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “statute, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• tautest

参照

• “statute”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers