nickname
英 ['nɪkneɪm]
美 ['nɪk'nem]
- n. ニックネーム; 愛称
- vt.ニックネームをつける；間違った名前で呼ぶ
語源
ニックネーム nickname.エーク?ネーム、エクストラ?ネーム、エーク、増加、語源はオーグメントと同じ。
英語の語源
- nickname
- nickname: [14] A nickname is etymologically an ‘additional name’. The word was originally ekename, whose eke ‘addition’ was a derivative of the verb eke (as in ‘eke out’). But by the 15th century an ekename was becoming misinterpreted as a nekename – hence nickname (the same process produced newt [15] from ewt, ancestor of modern English eft ‘newt’, and the reverse happened to adder, apron, and umpire).
=> eke - nickname (n.)
- mid-15c., misdivision of ekename (c. 1300), an eke name, literally "an additional name," from Old English eaca "an increase," related to eacian "to increase" (cognate with Old Norse auknafn, Swedish ?knamn, Danish ?genavn; see eke; also see N). As a verb from 1530s. Related: Nicknamed; nicknaming.
例文
- 1. The vital clue to the killer 's identity was his nickname ，Peanuts.
- 殺し屋の身元を明らかにする重要な手がかりは、彼のあだ名「ピーナッツ」である。
- 2.Andrew roared with delight when heard Rachel 's nickname for the baby.
- アンドリューはレイチェルが赤ちゃんにつけたあだ名を聞いたとき、思わずうれしくて大笑いした。
- 3.His family 's Cantonese nickname for him translates as Never Sits Still.
- 家族が彼のためにつけた広東語のあだ名はNeverSitsStill（座ったことがない）を意味する。
- 4.She professed to hate her nickname .
- 彼女は自分のあだ名が嫌いだと自称している。
- 5.She delighted in the nickname ，the "iron lady ".
- 彼女はこのニックネームである「鉄の女」が好きだ。