oyezとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• oyes

語源

From 中期英語 oyes, from Old French oyez, the imperative plural of oir (“hear; listen”), from Latin audīre.

Commonly folk-etymologized as (and pronounced homophonously to) O + yes in the early modern period.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈəʊˌjeɪ/, IPA: /oʊˈjeɪ/, IPA: /oʊˈjɛs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /oʊˈjeɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ, (英国発音) -ɛs
• ハイフネーション: o‧yez

間投詞

oyez

1. Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence and/or attentiveness).

使用する際の注意点

• It is still used in the United States Supreme Court, similar to calling “order”, and in many state supreme courts, though some lower courts have dropped its use.

名詞

oyez (plural oyezes)

1. A cry of "oyez".

動詞

oyez (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, no simple past or past participle)

1. (transitive, rare) To proclaim with a cry of "oyez".
   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 3:

     I truſte you make no queſtion about thoſe dull pated pennifathers, that in ſuch dudgen ſcorne reiected him, drunck deep of the ſowre cup of repentance for it, when the high flight of his lines in common brute was ooyeſſed.

参照

• Webster's International Dictionary: 1902.
• Concise Oxford: 1981.

アナグラム

• Yezo, Zoey