英単語

handwritingの意味・使い方・発音

handwriting

英 ['hændraɪtɪŋ] 美 ['hænd'raɪtɪŋ]
  • n. 手書き; 書道; 執筆; 原稿
  • v. 手書き(handwriteのing形)

語源


手書き, 手書き, 書道

手、手、書く、書く

英語の語源


handwriting (n.)
also hand-writing, "writing with the hand; form of writing peculiar to a person," early 15c., from hand (n.) + writing, translating Latin manuscriptum and equivalent to Greek kheirographia. Earlier was simply hand (n.) "handwriting, style of writing;" and Old English had handgewrit "handwriting; a writing."
An ordinary note in his [Horace Greeley's] handwriting is said to have been used for a long time as a railroad pass, then as a servant's recommendation, and finally taken to a drug-store as a doctor's prescription. ["Frank Leslie's Magazine," August 1884]

例文


1. I have to admit that I have bad handwriting .
私は自分の字がきれいではないことを認めざるを得ない。

2.His handwriting ,from earliest young manhood,was flowing and graceful.
彼の字は小さい頃から流暢で優美だった。

3.I 've never come across hieroglyphics like the handwriting of Peter Smallwood.
ピーター?スモールウッドほど判読しにくい筆跡は見たことがない。

4.The handwriting belongs to a male.
これは男性の筆跡です。

5.The address was in Anna 's handwriting .
アドレスはアンナの筆跡です。

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