whole
要点全体の、まる、全部
意味
- 《the ~,one's ~ の形で名詞の前に用いて》全体の,全部の,全…
- 《名詞の前にのみ用いて》(時間・距離などが)まる…,満…
- (物が)完全な,欠けていない;《名詞の後に置いて》丸ごとで,ひとかたまりに
- 《冠詞をつけずに複数名詞の前に用いて》ひじょうに多くの
- 《古》(人が)無傷の,(肉体的に)健康な
- 整数の,分数を含まない
- 《the ~》(…の)全部,全体,全量《+of+名》
- 完全なもの,統一体
例文
It will have been raining a whole week tomorrow.
明日で丸々1週間雨が降り続く事になっているでしょう。
Give your whole attention to what you are doing.
あなたのやっていることによく注意を向けなさい。
He wanted to commit the whole message to memory.
彼はそのメッセージを全部暗記したいと思った。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English whol, hol, hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English hāl (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). The spelling with wh-, attested since ca. 1400, represents an excrescent /w/, which developed in words with initial /(h)ɔː/, /(h)oː/ in southwestern dialects of Middle English. While this pronunciation did not establish itself in the standard language (except in one), the spelling survived in whole and whore, in the former case likely reinforced by a desire to disambiguate from hole.
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