Impostorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• imposter
• impostour (obsolete)

語源

Borrowed from Middle French imposteur, respelled in the Latin manner; ultimately from Latin impositor, agent form of Latin imponere (“to impose”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪmˈpɒstə/
• (General American) IPA: /ɪmˈpɑstɚ/
• ハイフネーション: im‧pos‧tor
• 韻: -ɒstə(ɹ)

名詞

impostor (plural impostors)

1. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Consent”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 153:

     "It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand."

   • 1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 778:

     Then again these figures take no account of the thousands of beggars who travel free in India. Many of these are religious "Sadhus", dressed often in nothing but a loin-cloth, or even less, and their bodies smeared with ashes. A large number of these men are nothing but impostors, but the Hindu railway staff usually are afraid to interfere with them.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     “I said he had a criminal face.” “He can't help his face.” “He can help being a crook and an impostor. Calls himself a butler, does he? The police could shake that story. He's no more a butler than I am.”

2. (computer graphics) A sprite or animation integrated into a three-dimensional scene to look like part of the 3D world.

   Coordinate term: billboard

3. (linguistics) A term referenced in an unusual grammatical person.
   • 2014, Daniel Kaufman, “The Syntax of Indonesian Imposters”, in Chris Collins, editor, Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement, →ISBN, page 105:

     Interestingly, Wang shows that Chinese allows the appearance of an indexical pronoun alongside the imposter, as in (31).

   • 2018, Angela Xiaoxue He, Rhiannon Luyster, Sudha Arunachalam, “Personal pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high vs. low risk for autism spectrum disorder”, in First Language, volume 38, number 5, →DOI:

     One possibility is that mothers of HR [higher-risk] infants frequently use non-pronoun forms in place of pronouns, as in the impostor uses noted above.

使用する際の注意点

impostor is the traditional spelling; imposter was relatively rare, but has become almost as common as impostor since 2000.[1]

同意語

• impersonator
• See also Thesaurus:deceiver

下位語

• quack

派生語

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɪmˈpɔs.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [imˈpɔs.tor]

名詞

impostor m (genitive impostōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) impostor

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “imposter, -ōris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.