litotesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /laɪˈtəʊ.tiːz/, enPR: lītō'tēz
• ハイフネーション: li‧to‧tes

名詞

litotes (countable and uncountable, plural litotes)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite.
   1. (especially) The negation of a negative quality to assert a positive.

   Synonyms: antenantiosis, meiosis, moderatour

   Antonym: hyperbole

   Hypernyms: irony, understatement, meiosis

   • 1895, William Congreve, “Introduction”, in G. S. Street, editor, The Comedies of William Congreve‎, volume 1, Methuen and Co.:

     The delicacy which prompts a later generation to reject that name is by no means necessarily a result of stricter habits, is far more often due to the flatness which comes of untiring repetition and to the greater piquancy of litotes.

派生語

• litotic
• litotical
• litotically

参考

• paradiastole
• double negative
• Appendix:Snowclones/not the X-est in the Y

Further reading

• litotes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Litotes in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• Sottile, oil test, toilest, toilets

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈliː.tɔ.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈliː.to.tes]

名詞

lītotēs f (genitive lītotētos); third declension (Late Latin)

1. (rhetoric) litotes (rhetorical understatement)

語形変化

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

派生した語

• → English: litotes (learned)
• → French: litote (learned)
  • → Russian: лито́та (litóta)
  • → Spanish: litote
• → German: Litotes (learned)
• → Italian: litote (learned)
• → Polish: litotes (learned)

参照

• “litotes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Souter, Alexander (1949), “lītotēs”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 234