museumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mjuːˈziːəm/
• (General American) IPA: /mjuˈziəm/
• (米国発音, dialectal) IPA: /mjuˈzim/, /mjuˈzæm/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈmjuzɪjəm/
• 韻: -iːəm

名詞

museum (plural museums or musea)

1. A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

   visit the history museum

   They're opening a new coin exhibition at the local museum.

使用する際の注意点

The plural "musea" has always been very rare in English.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Malay: muzium

動詞

museum (third-person singular simple present museums, present participle museuming, simple past and past participle museumed)

1. (ambitransitive) To place in a museum.
   • 2013, Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery:

     I use daily those books that for others are museumed. The glass case approach depresses me, makes books into porcelain, guts them of what they are.

   • 2016, Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla, Victoria Hightower, Representing the Nation, page 77:

     Such museuming provides evidence that the Gulf has started building up its defences to protect its national culture, which might be seen as threatened by modern, global societies.

2. (intransitive, colloquial) To visit museums.
   • 2014, Robin Reardon, Educating Simon, page 212:

     I told her I'd do just one visit to start; I don't really have time to do a lot of museuming.

参照

• “museum, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, May 2022: “Brit. /mjuːˈziːəm/, /mjᵿˈziːəm/, U.S. /mjuˈziəm/”

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [muːˈseː.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [muˈs̬ɛː.um]

名詞

mūsēum n (genitive mūsēī); second declension

1. a place or temple devoted to the Muses
2. collection, especially a private collection of scientific curiosities, instruments, etc.

   Museum Adolpho-Fridericianum

   The Adolf Friderik Collection

3. library, a collection of books
4. museum

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

参照

• "museum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “museum”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “museum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “museum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin