protectorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 protectour, from Anglo-Norman protectour, protector and its etymon Latin prōtēctor, from prōtegō (“shield, protect”). By surface analysis, protect +‎ -or. Displaced native 古期英語 sċildend.

発音

• (米国発音) enPR: prə-tĕk'tər, IPA: /pɹəˈtɛktɚ/
• (英国発音) IPA: /pɹəˈtɛktə/
• 韻: -ɛktə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: pro‧tec‧tor

名詞

protector (plural protectors)

1. Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
   • 2005 January 3, Jon Huntsman Jr., quotee, “Highlights from Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s inauguration speech”, in Deseret News‎, archived from the original on 23 September 2018:

     I stand before you in the spirit of pure public service — not as a protector of the status quo, but as an agent of change.

   • 2018 October 31, Toby Fox, Deltarune, v1.10, Windows, scene: Seam's shop, level/area: Chapter 1:

     They [the Lightners] were like Gods to us. Our protectors. Our creators. Those who gave us purpose... Then, one day we were all locked away in this prison... And the Lightners never returned.

   1. (multiplicity slang) A headmate who primarily fronts, or otherwise protects the system, in situations where the system is at risk of psychological harm.
2. A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
3. One who prevents interference. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.
5. (UK, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 122, column 2:

     My Lord Protector, ’tis his Highnes pleaſure, You do prepare to ride vnto S. Albons, / Where as the King and Queene do mean to Hawke.

6. (Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.

同意語

• (one who protects or guards): guard, sentry, (obsolete) advowrer

派生語

関連する語

参照

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [proːˈteːk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [proˈt̪ɛk.t̪or]

名詞

prōtēctor m (genitive prōtēctōris); third declension

1. protector (all senses)
2. guardian; guard
3. (politics) a high-ranking honorary title in the Roman Dominate, originally a bodyguard of the emperor

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “protector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "protector", 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)
• “protector”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.