Missusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• missis

語源

Representing a typical pronunciation of Mrs, a corrupted form of Mistress.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmɪs.əz/, /ˈmɪs.ɪz/, /ˈmɪs.əs/
• 異形同音異義語: misses, Misses
• 韻: -ɪsəz, -ɪsəs

名詞

missus (plural missuses)

1. (colloquial) Wife or girlfriend.

   Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping.

   The missus has a list of chores for me to do this weekend.

   • 2006, “Littlest Things”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen:

     Sometimes I find myself sitting back and reminiscing / Especially when I have to watch other people kissing / And I remember when you started calling me your missus / All the play fighting, all the flirtatious disses

   • 2013, Jeff Jenkins, Watching The World, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:

     Imagine you have driven past a restaurant and thought to yourself, 'That would be a nice place to take the missus for an evening out,' and in no time at all you have found yourself flicking through the Yellow Pages in search of the phonenumber.

2. (colloquial) Term of address for a woman.

   'Scuse me missus, but your petticoat's showing.

   • 2013, C. S. Peters, On a Wing and a Prayer, page 161:

     Look ere Missus! Little Joey's me bruvva. E stays wiv me. We aint goin ter be split up.

使用する際の注意点

The "wife or girlfriend" sense is most commonly used in phrases such as "the missus" (normally meaning the speaker's wife) or "my/his/Bill's missus". Traditionally, "missus" refers only to someone's wife. More recently, it has come to be used by some people also to refer to a girlfriend.

同意語

• Mrs. (US, Canada)
• Mrs (UK)

派生語

等位語

• miss
• mister
• mistress
• madam
• maiden
• maid
• master
• matron

語源 1

From mittō (“to send, to shoot, to let”) +‎ -tus.

名詞

missus m (genitive missūs); fourth declension

1. a sending, dispatching
2. a throwing, hurling, cast, shot
3. (in the public games) a round
4. (of a meal) a course

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

語源 2

Perfect passive participle of mittō (“send, dispatch”)

Participle

missus (feminine missa, neuter missum); first/second-declension participle

1. sent, having been sent, caused to go, having been caused to go
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:25

     et missus est angelus Domini sanctus Rafahel ut curaret ambos quorum uno tempore fuerat oratio in conspectu Domini recitata

     And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them both, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.

2. let go, having been let go, released, having been released, discharged, having been discharged
3. thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been hurled, cast, having been cast, launched, having been launched
4. sent out, having been sent out, emitted, having been emitted
5. uttered, having been uttered
6. dismissed, having been dismissed, disregarded, having been disregarded
7. put to an end, having been put to an end

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

• missa
• missiō

派生した語

• Catalan: mes
• English: mess
• French: mis
• Old French: mets, mes
• Italian: messo
• Sicilian: misu
• Aragonese: meso

参照

• “missus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “missus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "missus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “missus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to speak without circumlocution: missis ambagibus dicere
    
  • correspondence: litterae missae et allatae
    
  • (ambiguous) a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est