inertiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin inertia (“lack of art or skill, inactivity, indolence”), from iners (“unskilled, inactive”), from in- (“without, not”) + ars (“skill, art”). Something close to the modern physics sense was first used in New Latin by Johannes Kepler.

発音

• (英国発音, General Australian) IPA: /ɪnˈɜː.ʃə/, /ɪˈnɜː.ʃə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/, /ɪˈnɝ.ʃə/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃə

名詞

inertia (countable and uncountable, plural inertias or inertiae or inertiæ)

1. (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
2. (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter II, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book IV (Terror):

     Men […] have immense irresolution and inertia.

   • 1970 August 12 [1969 January 15], John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution‎, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 261:

     Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.

   • 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:

     City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.

3. (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

同意語

• (unwillingness to take action): idleness, laziness, sloth, slothfulness

派生語

関連する語

• inert
• inertness

Further reading

• “inertia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inertia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “inertia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• iranite

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɪˈnɛr.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [iˈnɛr.t͡si.a]

名詞

inertia f (genitive inertiae); first declension

1. want of art or skill, unskillfulness, ignorance

   Antonyms: calliditās, sapientia

2. (by extension) inactivity, idleness, laziness, indolence

   Synonyms: pigritia, sēgnitia, ignāvia, dēsidia, sōcordia, ōtium

   Antonyms: impigritās, alacritās, strēnuitās, āctīvitās

語形変化

First-declension noun.

関連する語

• iners
• inersitūdō
• inerticulus

派生した語

参照

• “inertia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inertia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "inertia", 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)
• “inertia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.