Thouſandの英語

別の表記

• Arabic numerals: 1000 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: M
• ISO prefix: kilo-
• Exponential notation: 10

語源

From 中期英語 thousend, thusand, from 古期英語 þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjača), Finnish tuhat, Estonian tuhat).

発音

• (英国発音)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈθaʊz(ə)nd/
  • (Northumbria) IPA: /ˈθuːz(ə)nd/
• (General American) enPR: thou′zənd, IPA: /ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/, [ˈθaʊ̯zn̩d]
• ハイフネーション: thou‧sand

数詞

thousand (plural thousands)

1. A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10 (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)

   The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.

   Many thousands of people came to the conference.

   • 1889, Charles Taze Russell, The Time Is At Hand‎, Allegheny, PA: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, published 1907, →OCLC, →OL, page 36:

     Three thousand years back in the Babylonian, Syrian, and Egyptian histories brings us to a period where their records are fragmentary and involved in great obscurity. In the history of China, it brings us to the Tchou dynasty, where the events of Chinese history "begin to be more trustworthy."

   • 1995, John December, quoting Craig Jackson, The World Wide Web Unleashed, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams.net, →ISBN, page 450:

     The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.

   • 2017 April 17, Rachel Monroe, “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement”, in The New Yorker‎, archived from the original on 4 August 2017:

     Accounts with between fifty thousand and two hundred thousand followers are considered “microinfluencers,” and tend to have higher engagement rates—that is, a larger share of their followers like, favorite, or comment on their posts—than those with millions of followers.

   • 2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China”, in CNN‎:

     And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.

使用する際の注意点

Unlike cardinal numerals such as ten or ninety-nine (where one can say e.g. there were ten men present), the word thousand is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner or another numeral to function as a numeral: one cannot say *there were thousand men present, but must say:

• there were a thousand men / one thousand men / forty-three thousand men present
• one can also speak of the thousand men, several thousand men, or some thousand men who were present
• compare a dozen men / one dozen men / forty-three dozen men, the dozen men, several dozen men, some dozen men

When preceded by a determiner or numeral and followed by of, it can be singular or plural:

• two thousand of the inhabitants died, several thousand of the inhabitants fled
• many thousands of women marched
• "Aragorn should find some two thousands of those that he had gathered to him in the South; but Imrahil should find three and a half thousands; and Éomer five hundreds of the Rohirrim who were unhorsed but themselves warworthy." (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King)

When followed by of and not preceded by a determiner or numeral, it must be pluralized with -s: thousands of women protested, countless thousands of women voted, not *thousand of women.

In Malaysian English, 1100, 1200, and other numbers combining a thousand and hundreds are known as thousand one, thousand two, thousand three, and so on.

同意語

• (numerical): nillion, illion, one thousand, one nillion, one illion, a thousand, a nillion, an illion, ten hundred

等位語

派生語

派生した語

• → Hawaiian: kaukani, tausani

参考

• Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds

アナグラム

• handouts, hands out

形容詞

thousand

1. alternative form of thousend