ventriloquistの意味・使い方・発音

ventriloquist

英 [ven'trɪləkwɪst] 美 [vɛn'trɪləkwɪst]

ventriloquist: ventriloquist: [17] A ventriloquist is etymologically a ‘stomach-speaker’. The word is an anglicization of late Latin ventriloquus, a compound formed from Latin venter ‘stomach’ (source also of English ventral [18] and ventricle [14]) and loquī ‘speak’ (source of English colloquial [18], elocution [15], eloquent [14], loquacious [17], etc).

The ultimate model for this was Greek eggastrímuthos ‘speaking in the stomach’. The term was originally a literal one; it referred to the supposed phenomenon of speaking from the stomach or abdomen, particularly as a sign of possession by an evil spirit. It was not used for the trick of throwing one’s voice until the end of the 18th century.
=> colloquial, elocution, eloquent, locution, loquatious, ventral, ventricle
ventriloquist (n.): 1650s in the classical sense, from ventriloquy + -ist. In the modern sense from c. 1800. Ventriloquists in ancient Greece were Pythones, a reference to the Delphic Oracle. Another English word for them was gastromyth.

2.Peter worked in night club as a ventiloquist .: ピーターはナイトクラブで口技の演技者として働いている。

3.A figure of a person or an animal manipulated a ventiloquist .: 口技演者が音を処理するために使用する木製彫刻。

4.Every ventriloquist carries a dummy of their own.

すべての口技出演者が人形を持ち歩いている。