SAM-Eとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 same, from Old Norse samr (“same”) and/or 古期英語 same, sama (“same”) in the phrase swā same (swā) (“in like manner, in the same way (as)”), both from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same”), from Proto-Indo-European *somHós (“same”). Doublet of -some, some.

Cognate with Scots samin (“same, like, together”), Dutch samen (“together”), Danish samme (“same”), Swedish samma (“same”), Norwegian Bokmål samme (“same”), Norwegian Nynorsk same (“same”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰 (sama), a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”), Old Irish som, Russian са́мый (sámyj), Sanskrit सम (samá), Persian هم (ham, “also, same”), Finnish sama (“same”), Estonian sama (“same”).

形容詞

same (not comparable)

1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.

   I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.

   Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens.

   Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.

   • 1885, William Kingdon Clifford, chapter IV, in The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences:

     Our space may be really same (of equal curvature), but its degree of curvature may change as a whole with the time.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

   • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii:

     If two persons bore the same name, and confusion was likely to be caused, ambiguity was avoided by adding the name of the father […]

2. Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
3. Similar, alike.

   You have the same hair I do!

   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:

     They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

     She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

4. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.

   Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.

   We were all going in the same direction.

5. A reply of confirmation of identity.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
     Kent: The same.

   • 1994, Clerks:

     Dante: Whose house was it?
     Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
     Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
     Blue-Collar Man: The same. [1]

使用する際の注意点

• This adjective is usually used after the (except after demonstratives, for example "this same girl"), in which case the actually belongs to the following noun. This can make it difficult to distinguish between this adjective and the same word used without an adjacent noun, in other words as an adverb or pronoun, usually as part of the same.

同意語

反意語

派生語

副詞

the same (not comparable)

1. (used with the) The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, unchanged; equally.

   A mother loves all her children the same.

   My hometown looked much the same as when I'd left 10 years ago.

   It took all night to find our hotel room, as we forgot our room number and each door looked the same.

代名詞

same

1. The identical thing, ditto.

   The same can be said of him.

   It's the same everywhere.

2. Something similar, something of the identical type.

   She's having apple pie? I'll have the same.   You two are just the same.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

3. (formal, often law) It or them, without a connotation of similarity.

   The question is his credibility or lack of same.

   Light valve suspensions and films containing UV absorbers and light valves containing the same (title of US Patent 5,467,217)

   Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same (title of US Patent 7,191,208)

4. (India, common) It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.

   My picture/photography blog...kindly give me your reviews on the same.

使用する際の注意点

• This word is commonly used as the same.

派生語

間投詞

same

1. (Internet slang) Indicates approval or agreement with the previous material, especially in reference to the previous speaker's viewpoint.

同意語

• this, +1, like, likewise
• IAWTP

語源 2

From 中期英語 same, samme, samen, (also ysame, isame), from 古期英語 samen (“together”), from Proto-Germanic *samanai (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”). Cognate with Scots samin (“together”), Dutch samen (“together”), German zusammen (“together”), Swedish samman (“together”), Icelandic saman (“together”).

副詞

same (comparative more same, superlative most same)

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal) Together.

Further reading

• “same”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “same”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “same”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• AMEs, ASME, Ames, EMAS, MSAE, Mesa, eams, mase, meas, meas., mesa, seam

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *samō (“in the same way; similarly, likewise”), influenced by the related adjective *sam (“same”), from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same”), *samô (adverb), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *somHós (“same”). (Can this etymology be sourced?)

副詞

same

1. in the same way

使用する際の注意点

Typically used in the phrase swā same or swā same swā

派生した語

• Middle English: same (conflated with Old Norse borrowing)
  • English: same