rumorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 rumour, from Old French rumeur, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewH- (“to shout, to roar”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɹumɚ/
• 韻: -uːmə(ɹ)

名詞

rumor (countable and uncountable, plural rumors) (American spelling)

1. (countable) A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.

   There's a rumor going round that he's going to get married.

   vile rumor

   a rumor going round

   vicious rumors

   spread a rumor

2. (uncountable) Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims.

   They say he used to be a thief, but that's just rumor.

3. (uncountable, archaic) Report, news, information in general.
   • 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods‎, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 3:

     It stands a city aloof. There hath been no rumour of it—I alone have dreamed of it, and I may not be sure that my dreams are true.

4. (uncountable, obsolete) Fame, reputation.
5. (uncountable, obsolete) Clamor, din, outcry.

同意語

• (piece of information):
• (information of questionable accuracy): gossip, hearsay, talk, tittle-tattle

上位語

• information

派生語

動詞

rumor (third-person singular simple present rumors, present participle rumoring, simple past and past participle rumored)

1. (transitive, usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip.

   John is rumored to be next in line for a promotion.

派生語

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈruː.mɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈruː.mor]

名詞

rūmor m (genitive rūmōris); third declension

1. rumor, hearsay, gossip
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 4.5:

     His rebus atque auditionibus permoti de summis saepe rebus consilia ineunt, quorum eos in vestigio paenitere necesse est, cum incertis rumoribus serviant et pleri ad voluntatem eorum ficta respondeant.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. the voice of the people, the common opinion; (also) fame, reputation
   • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles IX.9–11:

     Quid quaeris? Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
     Quae vos ad caelum fertis rumore secundo,
     Utque sacerdotis fugitivus liba recuso,
     Pane egeo iam mellitis potiore placentis.

     What do you want from me? I live, I am my own master, I left behind the self same things you by common approval so eagerly covet, like the fugitive I have no right to the priest's blessed cake, but bread will quench my hunger over any honeyed delicacy.

3. (figuratively, poetic) rustle, murmur, a murmuring

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “rumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "rumor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “rumor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • report says; people say: rumor, fama, sermo est or manat
    
  • a rumour is prevalent: rumor, fama viget
    
  • a report, an impression is gaining ground: rumor increbrescit
    
  • to spread a rumour: rumorem spargere
    
  • vague rumours reach us: dubii rumores afferuntur ad nos