C.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-c (particle)

1. Alternative form of -ce

派生語

派生語

発音

• (letter name): IPA: /siː/
• (phoneme): IPA: /s/, /k/, /tʃ/, /ks/, /ʃ/, ...
• 異形同音異義語: si, cee, sea, see
• 韻: -iː

文字

C (upper case, lower case c, plural Cs or C's)

1. The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

参考

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

数

C (upper case, lower case c, plural Cs or C's)

1. The third numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

略号

C

1. A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.

名詞

C (plural Cs)

1. (US, slang) One hundred dollars; a c-note.
   • 1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227:

     I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.

   • 1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Leon (Bill Duke):

     Five C's. Straight in-and-out job. Nothing fancy.

2. (music) The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.

   Hyponyms: high C, middle C

3. (education) An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.
   • 2021 June 18, Sam Roberts, “Saul B. Cohen, Who Helped Raise CUNY Standards, Dies at 95”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 18 June 2021‎:

     Dr. Cohen himself got a C in his first formal course in geography, during a summer program at Harvard after he graduated from high school. But he went on to earn three degrees and become the executive director of the Association of American Geographers and a leading expert in political and human geography — a specialty field that explores the impact of natural and arbitrary borders, territory, resources and populations on a nation’s cultural, social and economic development, as well as its relations with other countries.

4. (Unicode) Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

5. (slang) Cocaine.
   • 1945, William Burroughs, letter, 24 Jul 1945:

     Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted.

6. (slang, vulgar) Cunt.
   • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     He turned me on my stomach & slowly gently put his cock in my ass. I was so happy! But I was having a hard time completely relaxing & so he withdrew & went in my C.

7. Abbreviation of consonant.
   • 2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, in Lingoblog‎:

     The standard syllable structure of Lang Belta is CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant), but there are also syllables without one or both of these consonants. Therefore, other possible structures are: initial V, initial CV, and VC. For example, V ereluf ‘air’, VC unte ‘and’, CV xalte ‘to stay’, and CVC ereluf ‘air’.

8. (UK politics, in election results) Abbreviation of Conservative.
9. Abbreviation of century.

   Alternative forms: C., c.

   Symbolism was a 19C literary and artistic movement.

   • 1979, The Automobile Association, AA Town Plans, London: Hutchinson Publishing Group Ltd., →ISBN, page 222, column 1:

     Contains an interesting collection of English and European paintings from the 14th to 20th-Cs, in particular the Lycett Green collection of old masters.

   • 2013, Yvette Vignando, edited by Jane Caro, Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World, St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 127:

     Thanks, @janecaro, for showing that public profiles can be used for good & that social media belongs in a 21stC democracy.

10. (basketball) Abbreviation of center.

    Coordinate terms: PG, SG, SF, PF

派生語

関連する語

• (in Unicode): D, KC, KD, NF

語源 2

The programming language is so named because it followed on from an earlier language called B.

固有名詞

C

1. (programming) A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.
   • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine

     The PDP-11, from the Digital Equipment Corporation, was a coveted machine. It was the original computer to run a new programming language called C, which was on its way to becoming the hackers' standard. Gregory, as it happened, didn't have any spare PDP-11s at his disposal. But the repairman took the opportunity to question some of Nelson's blithe predictions in Computer Lib, and Nelson, in response, unleashed his glib and bitter tirade against the conservative ignoramuses in the computer business.

2. (British) Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
3. (stock ticker symbol) Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc. on the NYSE.
   • 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business‎:

     Citigroup (C) CEO Michael Corbat, who also went last year, has withdrawn.

下位語

(programming language): Objective-C

派生語

関連する語

• BCPL

語源 3

Abbreviations.

名詞

C

1. (entomology) Abbreviation of costa.

動詞

C

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of see.

   Alternative form: c

   • 2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80:

     Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy. […] U C wt I mn?

語源 4

Uncertain. Either from Hainanese 鮮 / 鲜 (si²³, “fresh”), short for 鮮奶 (“fresh milk”), Malay cair (“melted”) referring to evaporated milk, or an abbreviation of Carnation, a canned milk brand, and historically, one of the most widespread forms of evaporated milk in Singapore.

発音

• (Singapore) IPA: /siː(˦)/

形容詞

C (not comparable)

1. (Singapore, Malaysia, colloquial, used as a modifier after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)) With sugar and evaporated milk added.

派生語

関連する語

参照

• Unicode Consortium, Unicode Standard Annex #15, revision 41 (2014-06-05), § 1.2, table 1: “Normalization Forms”

文字

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. A letter of the Old English alphabet, written in the Latin script, representing the phonemes /k/ and /tʃ/.

数詞

C

1. (Should we delete this redundant sense?) the numeral 100 (hundred)
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     ⁊ R̄omana wæs ān C ⁊ ān M ofslaġen, ⁊ heora sċipa IX ādruncen.

     And 1,100 of the Romans were slain, and nine of their ships were sunk.

文字

C (upper case, lower case c)

1. The third letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

略号

C

1. A digit 100 (centum) in the decimal Roman numeral system. It is iterated for multiples.

派生語

参照

• C in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "C", 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)
• C in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

接頭辞

C-

1. Chinese; used to form nouns relating to the (popular) culture of China.

等位語

派生語

固有名詞

C--

1. (computer languages) A C-like programming language, designed to be generated mainly by compilers for high-level languages rather than written by human programmers.

   Synonym: C minus minus

Further reading

• C-- on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

前置詞

c.

1. Abbreviation of circa.

   The document was written in the Middle Ages, c. 1250.

名詞

c.

1. (chiefly law) Abbreviation of chapter(s).
   • 1885, "Pound" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XIX, p. 648:

     By the statute 1 and 2 Phil. and Mary c. 12 (1554), no distress of cattle can be driven out of the hundred where taken unless to a pound within 3 miles of the place of seizure. Where cattle are impounded the impounder is bound to supply them with sufficient food and water (12 and 13 Vict. c. 92, and 17 and 18 Vict. c. 60)[...]

2. Abbreviation of city.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. (informal) Abbreviation of cancer.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

4. Abbreviation of cent(s).
5. Abbreviation of century.

   17th c.

6. Abbreviation of cell phone.
7. Abbreviation of copyright.

   Published: 1913, c.1909

   (first print of this edition in 1909, reprinted in 1913)

副詞

c.

1. Abbreviation of circa.

   Alternative form: ca.

前置詞

c. (+ accusative)

1. Abbreviation of circa.

   Alternative form: ca.

前置詞

c. (+ ablative)

1. Abbreviation of cum.