echtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”). First use in English appears c. 1916.

発音

• IPA: /ɛkt/
  • 韻: -ɛkt

形容詞

echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt)

1. Proper, real, genuine, true to type.
   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, page 8:

     I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.

   • 2002 March 27, Buck Turgidson, “Heebetudinous”, in alt.california‎ (Usenet):

     And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.

   • 2009 January 18, Ross Douthat, “When Buckley Met Reagan”, in New York Times‎:

     An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken […] .

アナグラム

• Chet, Tech., chet, etch, hect-, tech