Imperialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 imperial, from Old French imperial, from Latin imperiālis (“of the empire or emperor, imperial”), from imperium (“empire, imperial government”) + -ālis, from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”). Displaced 古期英語 cāserlīċ.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /ɪmˈpɪə.ɹi.əl/
• (General American) IPA: /ɪmˈpɪɹ.i.əl/

形容詞

imperial (comparative more imperial, superlative most imperial)

1. Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     the imperial diadem of Rome

2. Relating to the British imperial system of measurement.
   • 2023, Patrick Lejtenyi, Food price perception can depend on whether it is measured in imperial or metric, according to new Concordia research‎, Concordia University News:

     Using imperial units such as pounds makes fresh produce look cheaper than it really is, and it might be luring consumers away from frozen produce, which could possibly provide the same nutritional benefits at lower cost.

3. Very grand or fine.
4. Of special, superior, or unusual size or excellence.
5. (in particular, of alcohol) Stronger than typical. (Derived from the name of Russian Imperial stout, a strong dark beer.)

   Imperial pale ale, Imperial IPA, Imperial pilsner, Imperial milk stout, Imperial lager, Imperial mead

同意語

• (humorous): in old money

派生語

関連する語

名詞

imperial (countable and uncountable, plural imperials)

1. A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
2. (paper, printing) A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
3. (card games, uncountable) A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
4. (card games, countable) Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
5. A crown imperial.
   • 1816, John Freeman Milward Dovaston, The Sonnet:

     There are who say the sonnet's meted maze
     Is all too fettered for the poet's powers,
     Compelled to crowd his flush and airy flowers
     Like pots of tall imperials, ill at ease.

6. A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).

   Synonym: royal

7. A kind of dome, as in Moorish buildings.
8. (historical) An outside or roof seat on a diligence or carriage.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 134–135:

     ...and she was just in time to see Mr. Boyne Sillery hand her aunt into a carriage, jump in himself, when it drove off with a rapidity which scarcely allowed her to observe that a large imperial was on the top, and her aunt's servant, with a huge bandbox, on the dickey.

9. (historical) A suitcase or trunk designed to be transported on the roof of a carriage.
   • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 3, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818:

     [T]he imperials were packed, and the post-chariot was at the door.

10. (countable, uncountable) A variety of green tea.

使用する際の注意点

• A champagne or Burgundy wine bottle with the same volume would be called a methuselah.

アナグラム

• Palmieri

語源

Borrowed from Old French imperial, emperial, from Latin imperiālis; equivalent to emperie +‎ -al.

発音

• IPA: /impɛriˈaːl/, /imˈpɛːrial/, /ɛm-/

形容詞

imperial (plural and weak singular imperiale)

1. Imperial; related to or being of an empire or its ruler.
2. Befitting or appropriate for someone of imperial rank; superb.
3. Unsurpassed, unmatched; lacking an equal or equivalent.

派生した語

• English: imperial
• Scots: imperial

参照

• “imperiā̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-24.