anecdote

• n. anecdote; 逸話; 秘史

接頭辞 an-, no.接頭辞ec-、ex-と一緒に、外へ。根源don, 与える; donate, donation, 過去分詞dotを参照。

ギリシア語の接頭辞an-は否定的なこと、ecdoteは与えられたこと、合わせて「公表されないこと」を意味する。6世紀の東ローマ帝国の歴史家プロコピウスによって書かれたもので、当時の女帝テオドラの女帝になる前の不名誉な体験が語られているため、プロコピウスの死後に初めて出版された。別名「秘史」とも呼ばれる。

anecdote

anecdote: [17] In Greek, anékdotos meant ‘unpublished’. It was formed from the negative prefix an- and ékdotos, which in turn came from the verb didónai ‘give’ (a distant cousin of English donation and date) plus the prefix ek- ‘out’ – hence ‘give out, publish’. The use of the plural anékdota by the 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius as the title of his unpublished memoirs of the life of the Emperor Justinian, which revealed juicy details of court life, played a major part in the subsequent use of Latin anecdota for ‘revelations of secrets’, the sense which anecdote had when it first came into English.

The meaning ‘brief amusing story’ did not develop until the mid 18th century.
=> date, donation

anecdote (n.)

1670s, "secret or private stories," from French anecdote (17c.) or directly from Greek anekdota "things unpublished," neuter plural of anekdotos, from an- "not" (see an-) + ekdotos "published," from ek- "out" + didonai "to give" (see date (n.1)).

Procopius' 6c. Anecdota, unpublished memoirs of Emperor Justinian full of court gossip, gave the word a sense of "revelation of secrets," which decayed in English to "brief, amusing stories" (1761).

1. He departed from the text to tell an anecdote .

彼はテキストから逸話をした。

2.He introduced his speech with a humorous anecdote .

講演の引き金としてユーモラスなエピソードを語った。

3.The image of the fox as a pest is grossly exaggerated in anecdote and folklore.

狐の悪人の精像は、噂や民話で深刻に誇張されている。

4.Pete was telling them an anecdote about their mother.

ピートは彼らの母親のエピソードを話している。

5.He has a talent for recollection and anecdote .

彼は記憶力とエピソードを語る上で非常に才能がある。