LIQUORとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 licour, from Anglo-Norman licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity, liquidness, a fluid, a liquid”), from liquere (“to be fluid or liquid”); see liquid. Doublet of liqueur.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈlɪk.ə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈlɪk.ɚ/
• (Indic) IPA: /lɪk.(w)ɜʳ/
• Homophone: licker (most accents)
• 韻: -ɪkə(ɹ)

名詞

liquor (countable and uncountable, plural liquors)

1. (obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     Thus Water also, or any other Liquor, included in a convenient vessel, by being warmed, manifestly expands it self with a very great violence […]

   • 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:

     Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
     I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
     "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
     Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."

2. (obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
3. A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).

   Synonyms: stock, (American English) pot liquor, broth, bouillon

4. (UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
5. (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) Strong (high-ABV) alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation.

   Synonyms: spirits, booze (narrow sense), hard liquor, hard drink (narrow sense), strong drink (narrow sense), aqua vitae, water of life

   Hypernyms: liquor (broad sense), booze (broad sense), adult beverage, hard drink (broad sense), strong drink (broad sense), drink (narrow sense) < beverage, drink (broad sense)

   Coordinate terms: malt liquor, beer, ale, wine, wine cooler

   • 1879, Chas. McArmor, The New Handbook of Vienna […] ‎, 2nd edition, Otto Maass, page 106:

     Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors.

6. (loosely) Any alcoholic drink.

   Synonyms: booze (broad sense), adult beverage, drink (narrow sense)

   Hypernyms: beverage, drink (broad sense)

   Hyponyms: hard liquor, liquor (narrow sense), booze (narrow sense), hard drink (narrow sense), strong drink (narrow sense), spirits, aqua vitae, water of life; malt liquor, beer, ale, wine, wine cooler

7. In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
8. A liquid in which something has been steeped.

派生語

関連する語

動詞

liquor (third-person singular simple present liquors, present participle liquoring, simple past and past participle liquored)

1. (intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
2. (transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To grease.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     Liquor fishermen's boots.

   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored

派生語

• liquored up

参照

• “liquor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “liquor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈlɪ.kʷɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈliː.kʷor]

名詞

liquor m (genitive liquōris); third declension

1. fluidity, liquidity
2. liquid, fluid

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

派生した語

• Catalan: licor
• French: liqueur
• → Romanian: licoare
• Italian: liquore
• Occitan: liquor
• Russian: ликёр (likjór)
• Sicilian: licori m
• Spanish: licor m

語源 2

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈlɪ.kʷɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈliː.kʷor]

動詞

liquor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of liquō

語源 3

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈliː.kʷɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈliː.kʷor]

動詞

līquor (present infinitive līquī or līquier); third conjugation, deponent, no passive, no perfect or supine stems (intransitive)

1. to be fluid or liquid
2. to flow
3. to melt
4. to dissolve

Conjugation

The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

参照

• “līquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lĭquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “liquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “liquor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “liquor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.