Q

• abbr.クイーン
• n. qの文字

ヘブライ文字のQoph（後頭部）から。

Q

16th letter of the classical Roman alphabet, from the Phoenician equivalent of Hebrew koph, qoph, which was used for the more guttural of the two "k" sounds in Semitic.

The letter existed in Greek, but was little used and not alphabetized; the stereotypical connection with -u- began in Latin. Anglo-Saxon scribes adopted the habit at first, but later used spellings with cw- or cu-. The qu- pattern returned to English with the Norman Conquest and had displaced cw- by c. 1300. In some spelling variants of late Middle English, quh- also took work from wh-, especially in Scottish and northern dialects, for example Gavin Douglas, Provost of St. Giles, in his vernacular "Aeneid" of 1513:

Lyk as the rois in June with hir sueit smell
The marygulde or dasy doith excell.
Quhy suld I than, with dull forhede and vane,
With ruide engine and barrand emptive brane,
With bad harsk speche and lewit barbour tong,
Presume to write quhar thi sueit bell is rong,
Or contirfait sa precious wourdis deir?

Scholars use -q- alone to transliterate Semitic koph (as in Quran, Qatar, Iraq ). In Christian theology, Q has been used since 1901 to signify the hypothetical source of passages shared by Matthew and Luke, but not in Mark; in this sense probably it is an abbreviation of German Quelle "source."

1. Q comes between P and R in the English alphabet.

英語アルファベットでは、 Q はPとRの間にあります。

2.Ah Q would rise to the bait as usual，and glare furiously.

阿 Q はいつものように怒って、彼は怒って目をむいた。

3.Ah Q had always had the greatest contempt for such people as little nuns.

若い尼僧の流れは、阿 Q 本来は草のように扱われている。

4.Make sure you get here p.d. q .

すぐにここに来てください。

5.You must mind your p 's and q 's when you get there.

そこに着いたら気をつけてね。