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語源

From 中期英語 usual, from Old French usuel, from Latin ūsuālis (“for use, fit for use, also of common use, customary, common, ordinary, usual”), from ūsus (“use, habit, custom”), from the past participle stem of ūtī (“to use”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃eyt- (“to take along, fetch”). Displaced native 古期英語 ġewunelīċ.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈjuː.ʒʊəl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈju.ʒuəl/, /ˈju.ʒ(w)əl/
• ハイフネーション: u‧su‧al

形容詞

usual (comparative more usual, superlative most usual)

1. Most commonly occurring; typical.

   Synonyms: ordinary, plain, regular, simple, standard, typical, wonted; see also Thesaurus:common, Thesaurus:normal

   Antonyms: abnormal, atypical, unusual

   The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.

   It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.

   We saw as many as usual.

   • 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “A Diſcourſe of the Kingdome of China”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 3rd part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, § V, page 380:

     And ſince this Family, called Ciu, which now holdeth the Souereigntie, hath reigned, it is called Min [translating 明 (Míng)], which intimateth Splendour, and by vſuall addition of one ſyllable Ta-min [translating 大明 (Dàmíng)], that is, the Kingdome of Great Splendour, Brightneſſe or Glory.

派生語

関連する語

• usuality

名詞

usual (countable and uncountable, plural usuals)

1. (uncountable) The typical state of something, or something that is typical.
2. (countable, colloquial) A specific good or service (e.g. a drink) that someone typically orders.

   I'll just have the usual.

   Two usuals, please.

使用する際の注意点

Sometimes colloquially shortened to the first syllable (IPA: /juːʒ/), an overwhelmingly spoken-only slang word with no single widely accepted spelling (see uzhe).

Further reading

• “usual”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “usual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• luaus, lūʻaus

語源

Borrowed from Middle French usuel and its etymon Latin ūsuālis. First attested in the 1380s.

発音

• IPA: /ˌiu̯ziu̯ˈal/, /ˈiu̯ziu̯al/ (from Latin ūsuālis)
• IPA: /ˌiu̯ziu̯ˈɛːl/, /ˈiu̯ziu̯ɛl/ (from Middle French usuel)

形容詞

usual

1. customary, established
2. usual, normal, regular

派生した語

• English: usual
• Scots: usual, uswal, eeswal

参照

• “ūsuā̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 April 2018.