funeralとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• funerall (obsolete)

語源

Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus. First attested in 1437.

Displaced native 古期英語 līcþeġnung (literally “dead body service”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfjuːnəɹəl/, /ˈfjuːnɹəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfjunəɹəl/
• 韻: -uːnəɹəl, -uːnɹəl
• ハイフネーション: fu‧ne‧ral, fun‧eral

名詞

funeral (plural funerals)

1. A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.

   Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.

   • 1661, Giles Collier, The Taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Persons Must Be Taken to Heart, Applied in a Sermon at the Funeralls of M Anne-Mary Child. […], Oxford: […] William Hall:

     The taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Perſons muſt be taken to Heart, APPLIED IN A SERMON AT THE FUNERALLS OF M ANNE-MARY CHILD. Wife of THOMAS CHILD Eſq. of North-wick in the Pariſh of Blockley. Worceſter-ſhire. […] TO THE Exemplarily Vertuous Gentle-woman, his much honoured friend, M ANNE CHILD, Eldeſt daughter of THOMAS CHILD of Northwicke Eſquire. AS I mean not an exerciſe for your modeſty by a flattering Epiſtle, ſo neither doe I intend the renewing of your ſorrows, by preſenting you with the plaine Sermon preach’t at the funerals of your bleſſed Mother.

2. (dated, chiefly in the plural) A funeral sermon.

派生語

関連する語

• funerary
• funereal

形容詞

funeral (not generally comparable, comparative more funeral, superlative most funeral)

1. (uncommon) Alternative spelling of funereal.
   • 1852, Benson John Lossing, The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution, page 367:

     All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there.

   • 1869, William Carleton, Tubber Derg: Or, The Red Well, page 166:

     Indeed I felt it altogether beautiful; and, as the "dying day-hymn stole aloft," the dim sun-beams fell, through a vista of naked motionless trees, upon the coffin, which was borne with a slower and more funeral pace than before, in a manner that threw a solemn and visionary light upon the whole procession.

   • 1888, Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's - Volume 5, page 153:

     There was something dramatic and theatrical in the very funeral ceremonies with which Demetrius was honored.

   • 1998, Lisa M. Klein, The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonneteer, page 15:

     The very funeral pageantry disguised behind-the-scenes struggles for control over Sidney's image.

参考

• celebration of life
• cemetery
• mortuary
• obsequy, obsequies

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “funeral”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “funeral”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• -flurane, earnful, flaneur, flurane, flâneur, frenula, unflare