post scriptumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin postscriptum, from From post (“after, behind”) +‎ scrīptum (“text, something written”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌpəʊstˈskɹɪptəm/

名詞

postscriptum (plural postscripta or postscriptums)

1. (rare) A thing that has been written afterwards; something appended in writing.
   • 1820, Humphry Martial [pseudonym], “Sir Jehu Face to Sir Cordovan Bristlemood”, in The Radical Letter-Bag, London: […] W. Wright, […], page 8:

     Meanwhile, I remain—Ever yours, / Jehu Face. / Postscriptums I hate; but I think you had better / Keep snug to yourself the contents of this letter.

   • 1827, M. Corbett, The odd volume, containing a letter purporting to be from King James VI of Scotland to Sandie Fotheringhame, Laird o'Powrie, signed: James, R.

     Postscriptum. — Scotland for ever! The Dane’s beneath the table, and Rab’s on the tap o’t, blawing like the deevil.

   • 1900, Honoré de Balzac, Anatole Cerfberr, La Comédie Humaine: Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English:

     This confidence so daintily tossed to the baron, in the fashion of a postscriptum, was evidently the compensation for five thousand francs.

   • 1902, The Critic, volume 41, page 369:

     Sometimes she adds short postscriptums, but, though full of her doings and sayings, this correspondence contains but little that is really from Rosa Bonheur’s own pen.

   • 1956, The American Journal of Individual Psychology, volumes 12–13, page 169:

     […] read the mother’s report to the students and pointed out to them how she evidently could not yet believe in a definite change, this being clear from her postscriptums “I know of” and “though with all the Christmas excitement. . . .”

   • 2004, L. G. Aslamazov, A. A. Varlamov, The Wonders Of Physics:

     Postscriptum for taxpayers: After having started with the high-temperature thriller we turned to applications of conventional superconductors.

使用する際の注意点

• Used to indicate a footnote at the end of a letter. Generally abbreviated PS or similar (ps, p.s., etc.).
• Addenda following an initial post script are often abbreviated PPS or similar (p.p.s., P.P.S., etc.), indicating post post scriptum.