alibiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈæl.ə.baɪ/

名詞

alibi (plural alibis)

1. (law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.

   to set up an alibi

   to prove an alibi

   • 1959, Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin, “Long Black Veil”:

     The judge said, “Son, what is your alibi? If you were somewhere else, then you won’t have to die.”

   • 1988, Criminal Law Deskbook, →ISBN:

     Alibi is different from all of the other defenses . . . it is based upon the premise that the defendant is truly innocent.

2. (sometimes proscribed) An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.
   • 1984, Jocelyn Brown, “Somebody Else's Guy”, in Somebody Else's Guy:

     That day in September, I'm sure you can remember / That's when all the stuff hit the fan (the stuff hit the fan) / You told me a lie, and you didn't have an alibi / But baby, yet I still cared

使用する際の注意点

• A very good alibi might be described e.g. as perfect, watertight, airtight, solid or iron-clad. A bad alibi may be said to be implausible or paper-thin or to not hold/tread water.
• Some argue alibi should not be used colloquially to mean an explanation or excuse to avoid blame or justify action, since this sense is unrelated to the word's original meaning of elsewhere.

派生語

動詞

alibi (third-person singular simple present alibis or alibies, present participle alibiing, simple past and past participle alibied)

1. (transitive) To provide an alibi for.
2. (transitive) To provide an excuse for.

参考

• Alibi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Defense (legal) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Locked-room mystery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Perfect murder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• baili

語源

From alius (“other, another”) +‎ ibī.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈa.lɪ.biː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː.li.bi]

副詞

alibī (not comparable)

1. elsewhere, somewhere else

関連する語

派生した語

参照

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