statusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate.

発音

• (英国発音, General Australian, Ireland, New Zealand, General South African, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈsteɪ.təs/
• (米国発音, Canada, General Australian, Ireland) IPA: /ˈstæt.əs/, [ˈstæɾ.əs]
• (Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, many accents) IPA: /ˈstɛː.təs/, /ˈsteː.təs/
• 韻: -eɪtəs, -ætəs

名詞

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)

1. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.

   Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.

2. Prestige or high standing.
   • 1957, Gladys Sellew, Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service, Saunders, page 81:

     The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.

   • 1979 April 28, Mary A. Lowry, “Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines (review)”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     It is no secret that the military was a bastion of racism and sexism keeping blacks and women in the housekeeping and other non-status jobs.

3. A situation or state of affairs.

   What's the status of the investigation?

   New York is known for its status as a financial center.

   • 2014 March 15, “Turn It Off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:

     If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.

4. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
   1. (Canada, usually used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.

      He is a status Indian.

5. (social media) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

   I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

   • 2012, “Facebook Drama”, performed by Northern Cree:

     I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight

6. (medicine) Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.

使用する際の注意点

• Rarely, statūs (following Latin) is found as the plural form.

派生語

派生した語

• → Cantonese: status

参照

Further reading

• Raymond Williams (1983), “Status”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 299

アナグラム

• suttas

語源 1

Inherited from Proto-Italic *statos. Perfect passive participle of sistō (“I cause to stand, set, place”) in its causative meaning.

Participle

status (feminine stata, neuter statum, adverb statim); first/second-declension participle

1. fixed, set, having been set
2. regular

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

語源 2

Inherited from Proto-Italic *status, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tus ~ *sth₂téws. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *statъ (“wealth”).

名詞

status m (genitive statūs); fourth declension

1. state, status, condition
2. position, place
3. rank, status

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

4. (New Latin) state (a political division retaining a notable degree of autonomy)

   Status Papae ― The Papal States, the name of the former territory controlled by the Pope in Italy

   Status Ecclēsiasticus ― The Papal State, an alternative name of the former territory controlled by the Pope in Italy

   Status Pontificus ― The Papal State, yet another alternative name of the former territory controlled by the Pope in Italy

   Statūs Ūnītī Americae ― A New Latin translation of the United States; cf. Cīvitātēs Foederātae Americae.

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

派生語

• statuō
• status nātūrae

派生した語

参照

• “status”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “status”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "status", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)