eternalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”). Displaced native 古期英語 ēċe.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪˈtɜː.nl̩/
• (General American) IPA: /ɪˈtɝ.nl̩/, /iˈtɝ.nl̩/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
• ハイフネーション: eter‧nal

形容詞

eternal (comparative more eternal, superlative most eternal)

1. Lasting forever; unending.

   Synonyms: agelong, endless, everlasting, permanent, sempiternal, unending; see also Thesaurus:eternal

   Antonyms: ephemeral, momentary, transient; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral

   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:

     But here again it is another question, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.

   • 1700 [c. 1387–1400], John, transl. Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, translation of The Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer:

     Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.

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

     Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die.
     We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.

   • 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     In a bid to understand the eternal mystery that is woman, Bart goes to the least qualified possible source for advice and counsel: his father, who remarkably seems to have made it to his mid-30s without quite figuring out much of anything.

2. (philosophy) Existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly.

   Synonyms: timeless, atemporal; see also Thesaurus:timeless

3. (hyperbolic) Constant; perpetual; ceaseless; ever-present.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Beneath him you might have seen the three of us - myself, sunburnt, young, and vigorous after our open-air tramp; Summerlee, solemn but still critical, behind his eternal pipe; Lord John, as keen as a razor-edge, with his supple, alert figure leaning upon his rifle, and his eager eyes fixed eagerly upon the speaker.

4. (dated) Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.

   Synonym: awful

   some eternal villain

使用する際の注意点

May be used postpositively, as in peace eternal, possibly as a result of Latin influence.

派生語

名詞

eternal (plural eternals)

1. One who lives forever; an immortal.
   • 2012, D. E. Phoenix, Revelations of the Fallen: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto:

     Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators

参照

アナグラム

• enteral, teneral

語源

Borrowed from Old French eternal, eternel, from Latin aeternālis; equivalent to eterne +‎ -al.

発音

• IPA: /ɛːtɛrˈnaːl/, /ɛːˈtɛrnal/, /ɛːtɛrˈnɛːl/

形容詞

eternal

1. Eternal, permanent; having existed (and existing) forever.
2. Endless, unending; lasting forever.
3. (rare) Long-lasting; non-ephemeral.

同意語

• eterne

派生した語

• English: eternal, tarnal
• Scots: eternal

参照

• “ēternā̆l, -ē̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 January 2019.