marathonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French marathon, coined in 1894 by linguist Michel Bréal for the first modern time Olympic Games after Ancient Greek Μαραθών (Marathṓn), a town northeast of Athens. Phidippides the Greek ran the distance from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message regarding the Battle of Marathon. The modern sport of marathon running is based on a run approximately the same distance. The toponym itself comes from μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”) and refers to the prevalence of the plant in the area.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmæɹəθən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmæɹəˌθɑn/, /ˈmɛɹəˌθɑn/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈmæɹə(ˌ)θɔn/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈmɛɹə(ˌ)θɔn/
• ハイフネーション: mar‧a‧thon

名詞

marathon (plural marathons)

1. A 42.195-kilometre (26-mile-385-yard) road race.
2. (figuratively, by extension) Any extended or sustained activity.

   He had a cleaning marathon the night before his girlfriend came over.

   • 2021, Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain, Ch.2, at p.35:

     I learned from the marathon that to finish a race you simply keep running.

   • 2023 June 10, Patricia Murphy, “OPINION: ‘Atlanta way’ long gone as city leaders face death threats over training center”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

     After a marathon session that included more than 14 hours of mostly negative public comment, the council agreed 11 to 4 to fund the center, and then gaveled out just before 6 a.m.

派生語

派生した語

• → Bengali: ম্যারাথন (mêrathon)
• → Chinese: 馬拉松 / 马拉松 (mǎlāsōng)
  • → Zhuang: majlahsungh

  Mandarin: 馬拉松 / 马拉松 (mǎlāsōng)

• → Gujarati: મેરેથોન (merethon)
• → Hindi: मैराथन (mairāthan)
• → Japanese: マラソン (marason)
  • → Hakka: 馬拉松 / 马拉松 (mà-la-sóng)
• → Korean: 마라톤 (maraton)
• → Swahili: marathoni

動詞

marathon (third-person singular simple present marathons, present participle marathoning, simple past and past participle marathoned)

1. (intransitive) To run a marathon.
   • 2015 August 1, “‘I was cross that my child had to beg the prime minister for a drug’”, in The Guardian‎:

     In less than two years, they and their family and friends have skydived, marathoned, tray-baked and dinner-danced their way to £130,000 for Duchenne research through their help4harry campaign.

2. (informal, transitive) To watch or read a large number of instalments of (a film, book, TV series, etc.) in one sitting.

   We're going to marathon Star Trek next weekend.

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