a Gonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin agōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæ.ɡəʊn/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈæ.ɡoʊn/
• ハイフネーション: a‧gon

名詞

agon (countable and uncountable, plural agons or agones)

1. (countable) A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134:

     It was not ecological pressure or shortages of protein, as anthropologist Marvin Harris has claimed; institutionalized violence, as opposed to the stylized agons of hunters over grievances, was the shadow side of the Neolithic Revolution.

   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xiv:

     One way of reading Beowulf is to think of it as three agons in the hero's life[.]

   • 2023 October 17, Volodymyr Yermolenko, “Europe seeks peace, not war. But will it be ready if war comes to Europe?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The other ethical system is that of agon. Agon is a battlefield. We enter agon not to exchange, but to fight. We dream of winning but are also prepared to lose – including to lose ourselves, even in the literal sense of dying for a great cause.

2. (countable) An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
   • 1986 March 23, Harold Bloom, “Freud, the Greatest Modern Writer”, in New York Times‎:

     Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology.

   • 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:

     The point, though, is that to fully and uncritically surrender to such agon against individuals is to invite one's own ethical degeneration; […]

3. (countable) A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
4. (uncountable) A two-player board game played on a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times.

   Synonym: queen's guard

派生語

関連する語

アナグラム

• Gano, Gaon, Goan, Nago, Noga, gaon, goan

語源

From 古期英語 āgān (“to go out”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀgān.

発音

• IPA: /aˈɡɔːn/

動詞

agon

1. to go, depart

Conjugation

参照

• “agōn, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈa.ɡoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː.ɡon]

名詞

agōn m (genitive agōnis); third declension

1. a contest

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• “agon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "agon", 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)
• “agon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “agon”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary