deteriorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old Latin *dēter, from dē.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [deːˈtɛ.ri.ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [d̪eˈt̪ɛː.ri.or]

形容詞

dēterior (comparative, neuter dēterius, positive *dēter, superlative dēterrimus); third declension

1. worse, lower, inferior, poorer

   Synonym: peior, nequior

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 192–193:

     SĪMŌ: Tum sīquis magistrum cēpit ad eam rem improbum, / ipsum animum aegrōtum ad dēteriōrem partem plērumque applicat.

     Then if someone gets an evil teacher for that purpose, it usually turns his own lovesick mind toward the worse path.

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.36:

     Magnam Caesarem iniuriam facere, qui suo adventu vectigalia sibi deteriora faceret.

     Caesar perpetrated a great injustice against him, as by his coming Caesar had lowered his revenues.

語形変化

Third-declension comparative adjective.

派生語

• dēteriorō

参照

• “deterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “deterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “deterior”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to find one's circumstances altered for the better (the worse): meliore (deteriore) condicione esse, uti
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “deteriorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.