Fauxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

enPR: fō′

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /fəʊ/
• (General American) IPA: /foʊ/
• 異形同音異義語: foe, pho
• 韻: -əʊ

enPR: fô′

• (Indic) IPA: /fɔ/
• (non-rhotic) 異形同音異義語: for, (horse–hoarse merger) four
• 韻: -ɔː

形容詞

faux (not comparable)

1. Fake or artificial.

   Synonyms: cod, mock

   Antonym: genuine

   faux pearls inlet in a brooch

   Your gee whiz, faux-naif deportment is unconvincing.

   • 2008, James Chandler, Maureen N. McLane, The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry:

     He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”

   • 2012, Susan Crabtree, Peter Beudert, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques, page 392:

     Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood. With proper technique and graining tools, all of these variations can be produced in faux wood.

   • 2012, Annie Padden Jubb, David Jubb, LifeFood Recipe Book: Living on Life Force, page 196:

     Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.

   • 2021 February 7, Daniel Kreps, “Watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ Skewer Super Bowl Sunday”, in Rolling Stone‎, archived from the original on 7 August 2022:

     The pregame crew then showed a pair of faux-Super Bowl ads, including an unnecessarily woke Cheez-It commercial and a Papa John’s ad that fully embraces Pizzagaters.

   • 2022 November 21, Julie Creswell, “Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 28 February 2023:

     Its faux burgers and sausages were landing on dinner plates in homes throughout the United States and on the menu boards of chans like Subway, Carl’s Jr. and Starbucks.

派生語

関連する語

語源 2

名詞

faux (plural fauces)

1. singular of fauces
   • 1845, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, page 688:

     […] the faux of the corolla […]

   • 1881, Anthony Rich, A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities, page 640:

     […] the small door on the right of it is the faux, which also opens upon the peristyle at its further extremity.

語源

Unknown. Possibly related to Ancient Greek χᾰ́ος (khắos, “abyss, chasm”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfau̯ks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfau̯ks]

名詞

faux f (genitive faucis); third declension (rare)

1. singular of faucēs (“throat, gorge”)

使用する際の注意点

The word is rarely used in the singular, and only in the ablative (in poems) and nominative (only attested once).

Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

派生語

• see: fōx

派生した語

(See also fōx.)

• → Italian: fauce

参照

• “faux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “faux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “faux”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 207