Angelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Ultimately related to the plural noun Engle (“the English,” originally “the Angles”), possibly from an unattested singular form *Angul or *Angel, related to Angel (“Anglia”), the Angles' original homeland in continental Europe, or else from a root common to all these terms. Similar prefixes exist for other peoples, in words like Wendelsǣ (“the Mediterranean,” literally “the Vandal-sea”) and Swēoland (“Sweden,” literally “Swede-land”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈɑn.ɡel/, [ˈɑŋ.ɡel]

接頭辞

Angel-

1. Anglo-; of England or the English

派生語

• Angelċiriċe
• Angelcyning
• Angelcynn
• Angelfolc
• Angelseaxan
• Angelþēod
• Angelwita

発音

• IPA: /ˈeɪn.d͡ʒl̩/, enPR: ānʹjəl
  • 韻: -eɪndʒəl
• (Caribbean or poetic or some singing) IPA: /ˈeɪn.d͡ʒɛl/
• (dialectal) enPR: ănʹjəl, IPA: /ˈæn.d͡ʒəl/

語源 1

Two Baroque angels from southern Germany, from the mid-18th century

From 中期英語 aungel, angel, from 古期英語 anġel, either a modification of enġel after its etymon Latin angelus (through the intermediate of Proto-West Germanic *angil) or a reborrowing from the Latin, which is in turn from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman angele, angel, from the same Latin source. The religious sense of the Greek word first appeared in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew word מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ, “messenger”) or מַלְאָךְ יהוה (malʾāḵ YHWH, “messenger of YHWH”). Doublet of Angelus.

Use of the term in some churches to refer to a church official derives from interpreting the "angels" of the Seven churches of Asia in Revelation as being bishops or ministers rather than angelic beings.

別の表記

• Angel
• angell (obsolete)

名詞

angel (plural angels)

1. An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a youthful, winged figure in flowing robes.
   • 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:

     The dear good angel of the Spring, / The nightingale.

   • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 50:

     There seemed to be girls sitting on top of them, or maybe they were meant to be angels. Angels are usually represented as wearing more than that, though.

   1. (Abrahamic religion) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
2. (figuratively) A person having qualities traditionally attributed to angels.
   1. Someone who is pure or innocent.
      • 2014 August 25, John Eligon, “Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

        Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life.

   2. Someone who is kind or selfless.

      Thanks for making me breakfast in bed, you little angel.

   3. Someone, especially a woman or child, having youthful, wholesome, or radiant beauty.
3. (obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene viii], page 151, column 1, lines 13–14:

     Diſpaire thy Charme, / And let the Angell whom thou ſtill haſt ſeru’d / Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb / Vntimely ript.

4. (possibly obsolete) An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic Church.
   • 1817, Thomas Stackhouse, A history of the holy Bible, corrected and improved by G. Gleig, page 504:

     An apostle, or angel, or bishop, as he is now called, resided with a college of presbyters about him, in every considerable city of the Roman empire; to that angel or bishop, was committed the pastoral care of all the Christian in the city and its suburbs, extending as far on all sides as the jurisdiction of the civil magistrate extended;

   • 1832, Edward Irving, speech before the Presbytery of London, quoted in 1862, Margaret Oliphant, The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London: Illustrated by His Journals and Correspondence, page 429

     […] the head of that Church, in whose place I stand in my Church, and in whose place no other standeth (the elders and deacons have their place, but this belongeth to the angel or minister of the Church), and the Lord commendeth him for trying […]

   • 1878, Edward Miller, The History and Doctrines of Irvingism Or of the So-called Catholic and Apostolic Church, § 9 Pastors, page 50 (discussing the structure of the early Christian church and of the Catholic Apostolic Church):

     The second or highest grade consists of the Angels or Bishops of Churches. Each Church has its Angel, who has (1) the higher supervision and care of all the flock, (2) the supervision and care of the Priests under him, and (3) the care of the Church itself.

5. (historical) An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.

   Synonym: angel-noble

6. (military slang, originally Royal Air Force) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.

   Climb to angels sixty. ― ascend to 60,000 feet

   • 1983 March 21, Roger Waters, “The Hero’s Return”, in The Final Cut, performed by Pink Floyd:

     And even now part of me flies over Dresden at angels one five; / Though they’ll never fathom it, behind my sarcasm desperate memories lie.

7. (colloquial, dated) An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
8. someone that funds
   1. (finance) An angel investor.
      • 2011, OECD, Financing High-Growth Firms: The Role of Angel Investors:

        “Latent” angels are defined as those who have not invested capital in the past 12 months, although they likely have invested knowledge in the process of reviewing potential investments.

   2. (theater) The person who funds a show. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

      Synonym: backer

同意語

• (spiritual messenger): errand-ghost (rare)

下位語

• cherub, minion, power, principality, seraph, throne

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• Jamaican Creole: ienjel
• → Chinese: 安琪兒 / 安琪儿 (ānqí'ér)
• → Hawaiian: ʻānela
• → Lingala: anjelu, anzelu
• → Malagasy: anjely

動詞

angel (third-person singular simple present angels, present participle (US) angeling or (UK) angelling, simple past and past participle (US) angeled or (UK) angelled)

1. (transitive, theater, slang) To support by donating money.
   • 1944, Maurice Zolotow, Never Whistle in a Dressing Room; Or, Breakfast in Bedlam, page 59:

     Six years ago, he lost $20,000 in the first show he angelled, a turkey called Dance Night.

   • 1984, “American Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, volume 118, page 88:

     You've got to come to Chicago to meet Duell, and see Wilson, who's going to angel the show.

参照

語源 2

Clipping of Angelman.

名詞

angel (plural angels)

1. (informal) A person who has Angelman syndrome; often capitalized.

参考

• 😇, 👼

アナグラム

• -angle, Angle, Elgan, Galen, Lange, Legan, Nagle, agnel, angle, genal, glean, lenga

発音

• IPA: /ˈɑn.ɡel/, [ˈɑŋ.ɡel]

名詞

angel m

1. alternative form of angol

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

語源 2

発音

• IPA: /ˈɑn.jel/, [ˈɑn.d͡ʒel]

名詞

anġel m

1. alternative form of enġel (“angel”)

語形変化

Strong a-stem: