companionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 companion, from Old French compaignon (“companion”) (modern French compagnon), from Late Latin compāniōn- (nominative singular compāniō, whence French copain), from com- +‎ pānis (literally, with + bread), a word first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a calque of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibō (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from Proto-Germanic *gahlaibô. Compare also Old High German galeipo (“messmate”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰 (gahlaiba, “messmate”); and, for the semantics, compare Old Armenian ընկեր (ənker, “friend”, literally “messmate”). More at co-, loaf. Displaced native 古期英語 ġefēra (literally “fellow traveler”). Compare company and mate.

発音

• IPA: /kəmˈpænjən/
• (Indic) IPA: /kəmˈpænɪən/, /kəmˈpenɪən/, /kəmp(ə)ˈnɪən/
• ハイフネーション: com‧pan‧ion
• 韻: -ænjən

名詞

companion (plural companions)

1. A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies

   His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years.

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 398, column 1:

     Heere are your Sonnes againe, and I muſt looſe / Two of the ſweet’ſt Companions in the World.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Varren Codex entry:

     The krogan have had a love-hate relationship with varren for millennia, alternately fighting them for territory and embracing them as treasured companions.

   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone:

     For the most part, Hefner's female companions all adhered to the same mold: twentysomething, bosomy and blonde. "Well, I guess I know what I like," he once said when asked about his preferences.

2. (dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
3. (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
4. (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
5. (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
6. (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
7. (attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.

   The companion guide gives an in-depth analysis of this particular translation.

8. (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
9. A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.

   a companion of the Bath

10. (obsolete, derogatory) A fellow; a rogue.
    • 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 III, scene i], page 49, column 1, line 111:

      [L]et vs knog our praines together to be reuenge on this ſame ſcall ſcuruy-cogging-companion the Hoſt of the Garter.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:friend

派生語

関連する語

• accompany, accompanying
• company

動詞

companion (third-person singular simple present companions, present participle companioning, simple past and past participle companioned)

1. (obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
   • 1865, John Ruskin, Precious Thoughts:

     we had better turn south quickly and compare the elements of education which formed , and of creation which companioned , Salvator .

2. (obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 341, column 1:

     Finde me to marrie me with Octauius Cæſar, and companion me with my Miſtris.