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解説 Definition
cloaked は cloak（覆う、覆い隠す）の過去分詞からできた形容詞です。物が布や暗さなどで覆われている状態を表し、比喩ではなく実際に覆われている様子にも使えます。
Cloaked describes a person or thing covered by a cloak or by something that hangs or spreads over it, such as cloth, darkness, or fog. It often occurs in the pattern “cloaked in” followed by the covering material or condition.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
cloaked は原形 cloak「外套で覆う、すっぽり覆う」の過去分詞が形容詞化した語です。語末が無声音 /k/ なので -ed は /t/ と発音し、全体は /kloʊkt/。a figure cloaked in cloth や hills cloaked in fog のように、布・霧などに覆われた姿を思い浮かべましょう。
Use the noun cloak as the core image: a loose outer garment hanging over and covering a person. The verb cloak means to cover in a similar way, and cloaked is its past participle used adjectivally. Because cloak ends in the voiceless sound /k/, the -ed ending is pronounced /t/: /kloʊkt/. Picture a cloaked figure wrapped in cloth, then extend the same physical image to hills cloaked in morning fog. The common pattern cloaked in tells you what provides the covering and helps fix the adjective’s use.
例文
The statue was cloaked in a white cloth.
その像は白い布で覆われていました。
The hills were cloaked in morning fog.
丘は朝霧に覆われていました。
A cloaked figure stood near the gate in the cold rain.
冷たい雨の中、マントで覆われた人影が門の近くに立っていました。
cloaked の類義語・関連語
cloaked の語源・成り立ち Etymology
cloaked は cloak「外套で覆った」に -ed が付いた形です。cloak は古北フランス語 cloque に由来するとされ、鐘のように丸く垂れる形のイメージから『すっぽり覆う』感じが生まれました。関連語に cloche、clock が挙げられます。
Cloaked is formed from cloak by adding the regular past-participial suffix -ed. Cloak entered Middle English through Old North French cloque, referring to a bell-shaped outer garment. The French word is associated with Medieval Latin clocca, “bell,” probably through the garment’s hanging, rounded shape. From the noun meaning an enveloping garment, English developed the verb “to cover,” and its participle cloaked came to describe something physically covered or enveloped.
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