richardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.əd/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.ɚd/

語源 1

From 中期英語 Rycharde, from Old French Richard, from Medieval Latin Richardus and Ricohardus, from Frankish *Rīkahard, from Proto-Germanic *Rīkaharduz, a construction of *rīks (“king, ruler”) +‎ *harduz (“hard, brave”). Cognate with Old High German Rīcohard (“Richard”). A hypothetical 古期英語 equivalent *Rī‌ċheard would also yield an identical "Richard" in Modern English, though it is unknown if the 古期英語 equivalent existed.

固有名詞

Richard (plural Richards)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     What! do I fear myself? there's no one else by; / Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.

   • 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed: The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:

     But we have known Williams and Richards, names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance, Fight the good fight of faith, or such like,

   • 1985, William Wharton, Pride, →ISBN, page 97:

     I'd love to live in our castle. First I'd change my name from Dickie to Richard. That's my real name and it's a good king name. I don't like being called Dickie anyway, and I don't want to be Dick Junior either because everybody starts calling you Junior. What I'd like to be called is Rich but I don't know how to start people doing it.

   • 2009 September, Eldon Chéze, JEFFREY LIONEL DAHMER: A PSYCHOBIOGRAPHICAL STUDY‎, archived from the original on 9 December 2025, page 121:

     Two months later, on March 24, 1988, Jeffrey met Richard Guerrero in the doorway of the Phoenix Bar (Davis, 1995; Masters, 1993).

   • 2023 May 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Can a daily multivitamin slow cognitive aging? Maybe”, in CNN‎:

     While the less-than-a-word improvement was statistically significant, it would be hard to tell if such a small change would improve a person’s life, said Alzheimer’s disease researcher Dr. Richard Isaacson, a preventive neurologist at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases of Florida.

2. (rare compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.

   Martin Richard was the youngest of three people killed by explosions at the Boston Marathon in 2013.

派生語

• King Richard
• Preston Richard
• Richard's Castle

関連する語

語源 2

Clipping of Richard III (Richard the Third).

名詞

Richard (plural Richards)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang, mildly vulgar) A turd.