Adieuとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 adieu also adew, adewe, adue, from Old French adieu (“to God”), a shortening of a Dieu vous comant (“I commend you to God”), from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Doublet of adios.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /əˈdju/, /əˈdu/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈdjuː/, /əˈdjɜː/
• (Canada) IPA: /əˈdjuː/, /əˈdjɜː/, /əˈd(j)ɪu̯/
  • (dialectal) IPA: /əˈd(j)ʌu̯/, [əˈd(j)ɛʊ̯]
• 韻: -uː

間投詞

adieu

1. Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     BEATRICE. What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
     Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?
     Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!
     No glory lives behind the back of such.

使用する際の注意点

Although the above pronunciations are usually used in American and RP English, neither is the standard pronunciation in French. /əˈdjɜː/ is used to approximate the French, while /əˈdju(ː)/ is a spelling pronunciation.

同意語

名詞

adieu (plural adieux or adieus)

1. A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.

   We bid our final adieus to our family, then boarded the ship, bound for America.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     As Noyes bade me adieu and rode off northward in his car I began to walk slowly toward the house.

   • 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:

     Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle:

     At the of his so remote, so near, 1884 summer Van, before leaving Ardis, was to make a visit of adieu to Ada's larvarium.

使用する際の注意点

Particularly used in phrase bid adieu.

派生語

参考

アナグラム

• Audie