英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 whatsoever. By surface analysis, what +‎ so +‎ ever.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌwɒtsəʊˈɛvə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/
• 韻: -ɛvə(ɹ)

限定詞

whatsoever

1. (formal or literary) Whatever.

   The building may be used for whatsoever purpose the tenant desires.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 587:

     […] In whatſoever ſhape he lurk, […]

使用する際の注意点

The word is sometimes divided by tmesis: “What things soever ye desire”. (King James Version, Mark 11:24)

副詞

whatsoever (not comparable)

1. (chiefly in the negative) In any way; at all; whatever.

   He gave me no answer whatsoever.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 1:

     In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

   • 2019, Dierdre Nicole Green, “'I'm the Bishop!' and other Reflections”, in A Place to Belong, Deseret Book, →ISBN, page 141:

     ...my father's role as the ecclesiastical leader of our ward gave me no license whatsoever to expect obedience from my agemates?

代名詞

whatsoever

1. (archaic or literary) Whatever.

   Whatsoever you seek, you will find.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:16:

     Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

   • c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court

     […] I must require you to use diligence in presenting especially those purloinings and imbezlements, which are of plate, vessel, or whatsoever within the King's house.

参照

• “whatsoever”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “whatsoever”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “whatsoever”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

限定詞

whatsoever

1. whatsoever; of whatever nature

参照

• “what-sō-ever, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.