Julietとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Italian Giulietta, diminutive of Giulia, from Latin Iūlia, feminine of Iūlius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒuːlɪɛt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌd͡ʒuliˈɛt/, /ˈd͡ʒuliət/
• 韻: (米国発音) -ɛt

固有名詞

Juliet

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, →ISBN, page 110:

     "All I ask," she says, fitting the cigarette into a holder, "is that you don't call me Juli-et. I cannot abide Juli-et. It maddens me!" "Yes, ma'am." "Here, we say Joolyut. Joolyut. Joolyut. Say it for me."

2. One of the title characters of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

3. A woman who is or is with a great lover.
4. By analogy with the Shakespeare character, a woman who is in love with a man from a family, party, or country opposing that of her own.
5. (astronomy) The sixth moon of the planet Uranus.

派生語

• Juliet cap
• Juliet sleeve

参考

• Romeo
• Juliett
• Capulet
• Montague