EXTERIORとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin exterior.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪkˈstɪəɹɪə/, /ɛkˈstɪəɹɪə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɪkˈstɪɹiɚ/, /ɛkˈstɪɹiɚ/
• 韻: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: ex‧ter‧ior

形容詞

exterior (not comparable)

1. Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.

   Synonym: outer

   the exterior part of a sphere

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.

2. Being from outside a country; foreign.

   the exterior relations of a state or kingdom

3. Outdoor.

反意語

• interior

派生語

名詞

exterior (plural exteriors)

1. The outside part, parts or surface of something.

   The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package

   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 31:

     Before dissecting a shark to see how it manages to function so effectively, let us first examine its exterior.

   • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎:

     [I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.

   Antonyms: inside, interior

2. Foreign lands.

   She is our new minister of the exterior

   Antonym: interior

参考

形容詞

exterior (comparative, neuter exterius); third declension

1. comparative degree of exter; outward, outer, exterior

語形変化

Third-declension comparative adjective.

派生した語

参照

• “exterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "exterior", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “exterior”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.