jessica
ジェシカ
解説 Definition
英語圏で一般的な女性の名前。ヘブライ語で「神は見ている」を意味する。
Jessica, normally written with an initial capital, is a feminine given name widely used in English-speaking communities. It identifies a person and therefore generally appears without an article, whether functioning as the subject or object of a sentence.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
人名としては通常 Jessica と語頭を大文字にし、女性の名前として使います。Jessica works ...、I met Jessica ...、named after Jessica のように、冠詞なしで人物を直接指す形を覚えましょう。シェイクスピア作品で英語に定着した名前という文学的な背景を、綴り Jess-i-ca の確認にも結び付けます。
Treat jessica as the personal name Jessica and capitalize the J in ordinary writing. It is a feminine given name, so learn it in natural name patterns: “Jessica works as an engineer,” “I met Jessica,” and “She was named after Jessica.” Personal names normally take no article in these uses. The name is famously associated with Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, which gives you a reliable literary connection. Break the spelling into Jess-i-ca when checking it, while remembering that Jess can also function as a familiar short form in modern English.
例文
Jessica has been working as a software engineer for over ten years.
ジェシカは10年以上ソフトウェアエンジニアとして働いている。
I ran into Jessica at the bookstore last weekend.
先週末、書店でジェシカにばったり会った。
Jessica was named after her grandmother on her mother's side.
ジェシカは母方の祖母にちなんで名付けられた。
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jessica の語源・成り立ち Etymology
シェイクスピアが『ヴェニスの商人』で創作した名前で、ヘブライ語Yiskah（イスカ）に由来するとされる。原義は「見通す者、先見の明ある者」。英語圏で20世紀後半に爆発的に普及した比較的新しい名前である。
Jessica is first recorded in English literature as the name of Shylock’s daughter in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The form is generally connected with the biblical name Iscah, from Hebrew Yiskah, traditionally interpreted in relation to seeing or looking out. Shakespeare’s spelling helped establish Jessica as an English given name. Its popularity grew greatly in the twentieth century, especially in English-speaking countries.
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