or at orとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) enPR: ôr'ə-tər
• (New York City) IPA: /ˈɑɹ.ə.tɚ/
• (Indic) IPA: /ɵˈɾeʈə(ɾ)/

名詞

orator (plural orators)

1. Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
2. A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Tam[burlaine]. Then ſhall we fight couragiouſlye with them?
     Or looke you, I ſhould play the Orator?
     Tech[elles]. No: cowards and faint-hearted runawaies,
     Looke for orations when the foe is neere.
     Our ſwordes shall play the Orators for vs.

   • 2003, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, The Last Days of Socrates, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 39:

     {...} when it becomes obvious that I have not the slightest skill as a speaker - unless, of course, by skillful speaker they mean one who speaks the truth. If that is what they mean, I would agree that I am an orator, and quite out of their class.

3. (obsolete) Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
4. (obsolete) A petitioner, a supplicant.

同意語

• speaker

派生語

• oratory
• public orator
• stump orator

Further reading

• orator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [oːˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [oˈraː.t̪or]

名詞

ōrātor m (genitive ōrātōris, feminine ōrātrīx); third declension

1. An orator, speaker.
2. A spokesman, spokesperson.
3. An ambassador (one entrusted with an oral message)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "orator", 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)
• “orator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sketch the ideal of an orator: imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare
    
  • to be considered the foremost orator: primum or principem inter oratores locum obtinere
    
  • to say only a few words: pauca dicere (pauca verba dicere only of the orator)
    
• “orator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orator in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “orator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin