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detective

/dɪtˈɛktɪv/ 頻出 頻度 2376位

要点刑事

意味

  1. 刑事;探偵
  2. 刑事の,探偵の
  3. 探知用の,検出のための

例文

語源

de-取り去る+tect覆う

ラテン語detegere「覆いを取る」から。覆い隠されたことを暴く人「刑事・探偵」。

detect(見つける)と同じ仲間。

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

The adjective is from Classical Latin dētēct-, past participial stem of dētegō (“to detect”), + -ive. By surface analysis, detect + -ive. Noun sense 1 is an ellipsis of detective policeman, detective officer, or a similar construction. The later more general noun sense 2 was derived by extension. The verb is also from the noun. Noun sense 3 (“a work of detective fiction”) is a semantic loan from Dutch detective and Russian детекти́в (detektív), both from English.

出典: Wiktionary「detective」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

辞書順で近い単語

detain detect detection detector detention deter