accessoryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /əkˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/, /ækˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/
• • (proscribed) IPA: /əˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈaksəs(ɵ)ri/, /əkˈsɛsɵri/
• Homophone: accessary

語源 1

From Medieval Latin accessōrius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.

形容詞

accessory (comparative more accessory, superlative most accessory)

1. Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; contributing or being contributory. [from 1550s]

   accessory garments

   Surprise parties succeed with the help of accessory neighbors or colleagues.

   • 1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, page 48:

     Amongst many secondary, and accessory causes that support Monarchy, these are not of least reckning, […]

2. (law) Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal.

   Hypernym: accomplice

   Coordinate term: principal

   Her actions were clearly accessory because they helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.

3. Present in a minor amount, and not essential.

   accessory mineral

使用する際の注意点

• (secondary, supplementary): Said of things and actions, very rarely of people (and then usually in a humorous version of the legal sense, or due to confusion between the noun and the adjective).

同意語

• (having a secondary function): accompanying, contributory, auxiliary, subsidiary, subservient, additional, acceding

語源 2

From 中期英語 accessorie, from Medieval Latin accessōrius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.

名詞

accessory (plural accessories)

1. Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.

   the accessories of a mobile phone

   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     the aspect and accessories of a den of banditti

2. (fashion) An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves. [from 1896]
   • 2018 June 5, Jonah Engel Bromwich, Vanessa Friedman, Matthew Schneier, “Kate Spade, whose handbags carried women into adulthood, is dead at 55”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 June 2018:

     One of the first of a wave of American women contemporary designers who emerged in the 1990s, she [Kate Spade] built a brand on the appeal of clothes and accessories that made shoppers smile.

3. (law) A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator. [from 1414]

   She was an accessory to the murder because she helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.

   • 2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 150:

     “You can be an accessory before the fact, or an accessory after the fact. It doesnʼt matter if itʼs before or after; either way youʼd be in for it.”

4. (art) Something in a work of art without being indispensably necessary, for example solely ornamental parts.

同意語

• (something that belongs to part of another main thing): accompaniment, addition, attachment, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct
• (one who assists in or instigates an offense): abettor, accomplice, ally, coadjutor, accessary

派生語

派生した語

• → Hebrew: אַקְסֵסוֹרִי (aksésori)
• → Japanese: アクセサリー (akusesarī)
• → Korean: 액세서리 (aekseseori)

参照

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