Asylumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /əˈsaɪləm/
• 韻: -aɪləm

名詞

asylum (countable and uncountable, plural asylums or asyla)

1. A place of safety or refuge.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 295:

     All the busy concerns of daily existence were utterly abhorrent to me. I loathed the sound of others' voices—I hated to be mixed up with their petty routine of ordinary cares; here was an asylum offered to me—here I might lay down all the offices of humanity, and dwell beside that grave whose rest was now my only desire.

2. (uncountable) The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
3. (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

同意語

• sanctuary
• shelter

派生語

動詞

asylum (third-person singular simple present asylums, present participle asyluming, simple past and past participle asylumed) (dated)

1. to place in an asylum

   1913, Marie Belloc Lowndes, chapter III, in Studies in Love & in Terror, page 144:

   It was she who in the last few years had spread abroad the notion that Charles Nagle, in the public interest, should be asylumed.

2. to grant protection or refuge

   1887, 6th Annual Session Baptist Congress:

   We have..sheltered its paupers, asylumed its orphans, clothed its nakedness.

参考

• non-refoulement
• refugee

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [aˈsyː.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [aˈs̬iː.lum]

名詞

asȳlum n (genitive asȳlī); second declension

1. asylum (place of refuge), sanctuary

   Synonyms: perfugium, latebra, receptāculum, tēctum, refugium, dēverticulum

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生した語

参照

• “asylum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “asylum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “asylum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “asylum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “asylum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “asylum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin