prospectusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French prospectus (“a prospectus”), borrowed from Latin prospectus. Doublet of prospect.

発音

• IPA: /pɹəsˈpɛktəs/

名詞

prospectus (plural prospectuses or prospectus)

1. A document, distributed to prospective members, investors, buyers, or participants, which describes an institution (such as a university), a publication, or a business and what it has to offer.
2. A document which describes a proposed endeavor (venture, undertaking), such as a literary work (which one proposes to write).
3. A booklet or other document giving details of a share offer for the benefit of investors.
   • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:

     The Manchester, Buxton, Matlock & Midlands Junction Railway, which was the title of this project, issued its prospectus on May 30, 1845, and announced that "this Company is formed to complete the communication by Railway between Lancashire and the East Districts. [...]". The capital to be raised was £800,000.

   • 2021 May 18, Jack Ewing, Lauren Hirsch, “The Big Money Is Going Vegan”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Just in case, Oatly’s prospectus gives it the option of listing in Hong Kong if the foreign ownership becomes a problem in the United States.

派生語

参照

• “prospectus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

語源 1

From prōspiciō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

名詞

prōspectus m (genitive prōspectūs); fourth declension

1. view, sight, prospect
   • Caes. G. 2, 22:

     in prospectu esse

   • 78, Plinius, Naturalis Historia, XIX, 59

     iam in fenestris suis plebs urbana imagine hortorum cotidiana oculis rura praebebant, antequam praefigi prospectus omnes coegit multitudinis innumerae saeva latrocinatio.

2. panorama
   • 2015, Francisci, Laudato si' §85:

     Ex amplissimis prospectibus ad minimam vitae formam, natura mirationem reverentiamque indesinenter concitat

     From panoramic vistas to the tiniest living form, nature is a constant source of wonder and awe.

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

派生した語

• Italian: prospetto
• → Catalan: prospecte
• → English: prospect
• → French: prospectus
  • → English: prospectus
• → Georgian: გამზირი (gamziri) (calque)
• → German: Prospekt
  • → Russian: проспе́кт (prospékt)
    • → Armenian: պրոսպեկտ (prospekt)
    • → Azerbaijani: prospekt
    • → Georgian: პროსპექტი (ṗrosṗekṭi)
    • → Lithuanian: prospektas
    • → Macedonian: проспект (prospekt)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: про̀спект, pròspekt
• → Norwegian: prospekt
• → Spanish: prospecto

語源 2

Perfect passive participle of prōspiciō.

Participle

prōspectus (feminine prōspecta, neuter prōspectum); first/second-declension participle

1. watched or looked (out)
2. discerned
3. foreseen

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

参照

• “prospectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prospectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “prospectus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • one has a view over...; one is able to see as far as..: prospectus est ad aliquid