Jessicaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Jessicah, Jessika, Jessikah, Jessicka, Jessickah, Jessiqa, Jessyca, Jessyka, Jesica, Jesika, Jesyca, Jesyka, Jezica, Jezika, Jezyca, Jezyka

語源

First used by William Shakespeare in Merchant of Venice in the early 17th century, probably from Hebrew יִסְכָּה (yiská, “Iscah in Genesis 11:29, Jescha in the Wycliffe version”), a proper name meaning "he will see/behold/look for", the 3ms imperfect form of a verb ultimately from the root ס־כ־ה (s-k-h), itself an alternative form of the root שׂ־כ־ה (ś-k-h), both of which mean "to see, behold, look for".

• By folk etymology seen as an elaborate form of Jessie, from Jane.

発音

• enPR: jĕsʹĭkə, IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛsɪkə/

固有名詞

Jessica (plural Jessicas)

1. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     Lorenzo: In such a night / Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew, / And with an unthrift love did run from Venice, / As far as Belmont.

   • 1996, Tad Williams, The Writer's Child, The Sandman Book of Dreams, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 154:

     She will be beautiful, of course - how could our child not be beautiful? We will name her...Jessica. Yes, that's a good name, not one of those lighter-than-air names so popular among writers of romances and fairy tales. That's a name a real little girl might have.

   • 2015, Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

     Jessica. It was, she later thought, a name well suited to whitehaired ladies with bright blue eyes.

   • 2016 August 31, “GENIUS CHARACTER REVEALS: Mark Watney”, in Industrial Scripts‎:

     The first line of dialogue is from an off-screen Field Commander Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), asking the team to stay in sight and “make NASA proud”.

使用する際の注意点

• Formerly rare, but from the 1970s to the 2010s popular in all English-speaking countries.

派生語

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