Elevenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Arabic numerals: 11
• Roman numerals: XI

語源

From 中期英語 elleven, enleven, eleven, from 古期英語 endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪˈlɛvən/
• (General American) IPA: /əˈlɛvən/, /i-/
• (casually also) IPA: [ɪˈlɛbm̩]
• (Indic) IPA: /(ɪ)ˈlɛvən/
• 韻: -ɛvən

数詞

eleven

1. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.
   • 1973, Jane Roberts, The education of Oversoul Seven, page 8:

     It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.

   • 2011, Helen Bailey, Knowing Me, Knowing You:

     I know most girls say that they've known their bezzies since they started primary school together, bonding over handmade Mother's Day cards or a hatred of the egg-and-spoon race, but I've only known Taryn since I was eleven […]

   • 2014, Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard, page 169:

     It was also a work of fiction in which another work of fiction (Gulliver's Travels) was real; that Chinese box of an idea is wonderful to discover when you're eleven.

派生語

関連する語

• onety-one

参考

• Last: ten. Next: twelve

名詞

eleven (plural elevens)

1. (cricket) A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
2. (soccer, American football) A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
   • 1926, J. Conoboy, “Walter Achiu: Chinese-Hawaiian Athlete Will Be Leader of Flyers On Cinder Path This Year”, in The Dayton Herald‎, page 21:

     Sneeze is well known by all followers of U. of D. athletics for his great work at halfback on the Flyers' eleven for the past four seasons [...]

3. (Internet, slang, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !!, used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.

   A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!

   B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!

4. (countable, US, slang) A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
   1. An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
   2. A very high level of intensity.

同意語

• (sarcastic substitution for !): one, 1

派生語

参考

• Appendix:English collective nouns