Homageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɒmɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈhɒmɑːʒ/, /ɒˈmɑːʒ/
• (General American) enPR: (h)ŏmʹĭj, ō-mäjʹ, ŏ-mäjʹ, IPA: /ˈ(h)ɑmɪd͡ʒ/, /oʊˈmɑʒ/, /ɑˈmɑʒ/
• 韻: -ɪdʒ, -ɑːʒ
• ハイフネーション: hom‧age

名詞

homage (countable and uncountable, plural homages)

1. (countable, uncountable) A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.

   Synonyms: salute, tribute

   Antonym: insult

   • 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 11, lines 214–215:

     I ſought no homage from the Race that vvrite; / I kept, like Aſian Monarchs, from their ſight: […]

   • 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:

     When a man squeezes the hand of a pretty woman, […] she will consider such an impertinent freedom in the light of an insult, if she have any true delicacy, instead of being flattered by this unmeaning homage to beauty.

   • 2006, “New York Times”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     It’s appropriate that we pay homage to them and the sacrifices they made.

   • 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London’s Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, number 922, page 62:

     My rainy-day tour in April during the first lockdown was, in fact, a homage to Sir John Betjeman - the poet and railway campaigner whose statue can be found on the upper concourse of St Pancras station.

2. (countable) An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.
   • 2002, Kevin Williamson, Dawson's Creek (TV, episode 6.01)

     He likes to tell people that it's a Hitchcockian thriller, but that's kind of like saying Happy Gilmore is a homage to Woody Allen.

3. (historical) In feudalism, the formal oath of a vassal to honor his or her lord's rights.
   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, / Love thee as our commander and our king.

   Synonym: (obsolete) manred

使用する際の注意点

• Often used in the construction pay homage to.
• Because of the different pronunciations, homage is sometimes preceded by the article a and sometimes by an.
• Recently, the pronunciation /oʊˈmɑːʒ/ has been introduced from French for sense 2; see hommage, which preserves the French spelling.

派生語

• homager
• lip homage
• pay homage to

動詞

homage (third-person singular simple present homages, present participle homaging, simple past and past participle homaged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pay reverence to by external action.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to pay homage.
   • 1641, Abraham Cowley, A Poem on the Civil War:

     The Austrian Crowns and Romes seven Hills she shook; >br>To her great Neptune Homag'd all his Streams

参照

Further reading

• “homage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “homage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Homage (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• ohmage

語源

From Old French homage, hommage, from Medieval Latin homināticum.

発音

• IPA: /ɔmˈaːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /umˈaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

名詞

homage (plural homages)

1. An oath of loyalty to a liege performed by their vassal; a pledge of allegiance.
2. Money given to a liege by a vassal or the privilege of collecting such money.
3. A demonstration of respect or honor towards an individual (including prayer).
4. (rare) Membership in an organised religion or belief system.
5. (rare) The totality of a feudal lord's subjects when collected.

関連する語

• homager

派生した語

• English: homage
• Scots: homage
• → Irish: ómós

参照

• “homāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 April 2019.