amalgamated
合併した
解説 Definition
amalgamated は amalgamate（合併する、融合する）の過去形・過去分詞です。会社や組織、複数の要素が一つにまとまったことを表し、やや硬い表現です。
Amalgamated is the past-tense and past-participle form of amalgamate. It describes companies, organizations, groups, or different elements that combined or were combined into a single larger whole, usually in formal contexts.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
amalgamated は amalgamate「合併する・融合する」の過去形・過去分詞です。語末が /t/ のため -ed は /ɪd/ と発音し、「アマルガメイティド」に近くなります。amalgam「異なるものの混合物」を核に、departments amalgamated into one のような組織の統合場面で覚えましょう。
Start with amalgam, a mixture of different materials, and picture separate organizations becoming one combined body. Amalgamated is the past tense and past participle of amalgamate, so two departments amalgamated means that they joined together. It can also appear passively: the smaller firms were amalgamated into a larger company. Since amalgamate ends in the /t/ sound, the -ed ending is pronounced /ɪd/, giving a final sound like “-tay-tid.” The word is more formal than joined or merged and is especially common in organizational and administrative contexts.
例文
The two departments amalgamated into one larger team.
その二つの部署は合併して、より大きな一つのチームになりました。
Several local clubs amalgamated to share costs and facilities.
いくつかの地域クラブは費用と施設を共有するために合併しました。
The report describes how the smaller firms amalgamated over time.
その報告書は、小規模な会社が時間をかけてどのように合併したかを説明しています。
amalgamated の類義語・関連語
amalgamated の語源・成り立ち Etymology
amalgamated は amalgamate の過去分詞で、amalgam「合金・混合物」＋ -ate からできた語。amalgam は中世ラテン語 amalgama 由来で、もとは水銀で金属を混ぜることを指した。そこから「一つに溶け合うように合併する」の意になった。関連語は amalgam。
Amalgamated is formed from amalgamate plus the past-tense or participial ending -ed. Amalgamate was created from amalgam, originally a substance made by combining mercury with another metal, and the verbal suffix -ate. Amalgam came through Medieval Latin amalgama, though its earlier history is uncertain. The physical idea of metals being thoroughly mixed later produced the figurative sense of combining companies, organizations, ideas, or other elements into one whole.
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