Candorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• candour (British, Canada)

語源

From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from candeō (“I shine”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈkæn.dɚ/, [ˈkɛən.dɚ]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/, [ˈkɛːn.də(ɹ)]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈkɛn.də(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ændə(ɹ)

名詞

candor (usually uncountable, plural candors) (American spelling)

1. The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]

   Synonyms: frankness, honesty, sincerity, parrhesia

   Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie

2. Impartiality.

   Synonyms: equity, fairness

3. (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity. [c. 1500–?]
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "To his Booke":

     Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd,
     Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child […]

使用する際の注意点

• The second sense can be used as the abstract noun equivalent of candid, i.e. “the state of being candid”.

派生語

関連する語

• candid
• candle

アナグラム

• Cardon, Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, cardon, dacron

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkan.dɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkan̪.d̪or]

名詞

candor m (genitive candōris); third declension

1. a dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness
2. fairness, beauty
3. glow, heat
4. (of speech) splendor, brilliance
5. (of mind or character) frankness, openness, candor, purity

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

派生した語

参照

• “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "candor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “candor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.