frankとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: frăngk, IPA: /fɹæŋk/
• 韻: -æŋk
• 異形同音異義語: frank, franc

語源 1

From 中期英語 Frank, partially from 古期英語 Franca (“a Frank”); and partially from Old French Franc, and/or Latin Francus (“a Frank”), from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”); both maybe from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). Cognate with Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), 古期英語 franca (“spear, javelin”). Compare Saxon, ultimately a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“knife, dagger”). Doublet of franc, frank, and farang.

名詞

Frank (plural Franks)

1. One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.
2. (puristic) Frenchman.

派生語

• Frankish
• Frankland

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語源 2

The surname derives from the medieval tribal name. The given name is also a form of Francis, with formal given name status since the 19th century.

固有名詞

Frank

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Mrs. Ford. How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?

2. A diminutive of the male given name Francis.
   • 1996, Frank McCourt, chapter VII, in Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 197:

     Your name is Francis, is it?
     Frank, sir.
     Your name is Francis. There was never a St. Frank. That's a name for gangsters and politicians.

   • 2011 April 9, Marc Lacey, “Spraying to Make Yards Green ... but With Paint, Not Water”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 12 November 2020:

     But Frank Fairbanks, a retired public administrator, had to sheepishly acknowledge that he had grass. “Unfortunately, like many of our central Phoenix neighbors, we have a green lawn which consumes more water than xeriscape,” he told the paper.

3. A surname transferred from the nickname.
4. A place name:
   1. A community in Crowsnest Pass municipality, south-west Alberta, Canada.
   2. An unincorporated community in Avery County, North Carolina, United States.
   3. A census-designated place in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States.

関連する語

• Frank-ter Haar syndrome