retroとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French rétro, ultimately from Latin retro.

発音

• enPR: rĕt′rō
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹɛt.ɹəʊ/

• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈɹɛt.ɹoʊ/
• (Indic) IPA: /reʈˈroː/
• 韻: -ɛtɹəʊ
• ハイフネーション: ret‧ro

形容詞

retro (comparative more retro, superlative most retro)

1. Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were.
   • 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times‎:

     Scientists say that while the public may think of the moon as a problem solved and a bit retro – the place astronauts visited a half-dozen times way back before Watergate and then abandoned with a giant "meh" from mankind – in fact, lunar studies is a vibrant enterprise that is yielding a wealth of surprises.

2. Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto.

派生語

名詞

retro (countable and uncountable, plural retros or retroes)

1. (uncountable) Past fashions or trends.
2. (countable) Abbreviation of retrorocket.
3. (countable) Abbreviation of retrospective.
   • 1983, Sightlines, volumes 16-17, page 44:

     Richard Leacock's 1981 film portrait, Louise Brooks, was shown during a retro of Ms. Brooks's films at the Walker Art Center.

4. (chess) A chess puzzle of retrograde analysis, requiring the solver to work out the history of moves leading to the position presented.

参考

• (fashion, the past, trend, style): retro on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Torre

副詞

retrō (not comparable)

1. back, backwards, behind

   Vāde retrō, Satanā!

   Get thee behind me, Satan!

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.489–490:

     “[...] sistere aquam fluviīs, et vertere sīdera retrō, / nocturnōsque movet mānīs [...].”

     “[The enchantress claims that she is able] to halt the water [current] in rivers, and to turn stars backwards, and evoke nocturnal souls of the dead [...].”

2. before, formerly

派生語

• *ad retrō
• dē retrō

派生した語

参照

• “retro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “retro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "retro", 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)
• “retro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to back water: navem retro inhibere (Att. 13. 21)
    
• retro in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

発音

• enPR: rĕt′rō-
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹɛtɹəʊ-/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈɹɛtɹoʊ-/
• ハイフネーション: re‧tro-

接頭辞

retro-

1. Back or backward.
2. Behind.
3. In the opposite direction.
4. Pertaining to an earlier time.

   retroactive

5. (informal) Old-fashioned or old school.

同意語

• re-

反意語

• pro-

派生語

アナグラム

• Torre