Untoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 unto, from 古期英語 *untō, *und tō, equivalent to un- (“against; toward; up to”) +‎ to. Cognate with Old Frisian ont to ("until"; > Saterland Frisian antou (“until”)) (cf. Old Frisian und (“up to; till”), Old Frisian til (“till; to”)), Old Saxon untō, untuo (“until”), Old High German unze, unzi, unza (“until”), Old Norse und (“as far as; up to”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌴 (untē, “until; as long as”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈʌntʊ/, /-tuː/, /-tə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈʌntə/, /-tuː/, /-tʊ/
• 韻: -ʌntə
• ハイフネーション: un‧to

接続詞

unto

1. (obsolete, poetic) Up to the time or degree that; until.

   Unto This Last (John Ruskin)

同意語

• till; see also Thesaurus:until

前置詞

unto (archaic or poetic)

1. Up to; indicates a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.

   Sir Gawain rode unto the nearby castle.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Come unto these yellow sands,
     And then take hands;
     Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd
     The wild waves whist,
     Foot it featly here and there,
     And sweet sprites bear
     The burthen. […]

2. To; indicates an indirect object.

   And the Lord said unto Moses […]

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     So please my lord the duke and all the court
     To quit the fine for one half of his goods
     I am content; so he will let me have
     The other half in use, to render it,
     Upon his death, unto the gentleman
     That lately stole his daughter:
     Two things provided more,— […]

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 61:

     […] And, doubtless, unto thee is given
     ⁠A life that bears immortal fruit
     ⁠In such great offices as suit
     The full-grown energies of heaven.

3. Down to the last; encompassing even every.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 36:

     ⁠I do but sing because I must,
     And pipe but as the linnets sing:
     And unto one her note is gay,
     ⁠For now her little ones have ranged;
     ⁠And unto one her note is changed,
     Because her brood is stol’n away.

派生語

参考

• onto

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “unto”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• nout, out'n

前置詞

unto

1. unto
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:

     And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge. And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende. Also Filip of Repintoun whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, monke of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte, and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and prudent, taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto. And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew. And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”

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派生した語

• English: unto