mag
雑誌
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
mag は magazine のくだけた短縮形で、友人同士の会話や広告などに現れます。語頭の mag だけを残した形なので、意味もそのまま「雑誌」です。a fashion mag、a music mag のように分野を前に置く用法を覚え、より中立的・正式な場面では magazine を使いましょう。
Think of mag as magazine with its final syllables clipped off. The shortening does not create a new type of publication; it simply gives the familiar word a more casual tone. Phrases such as a fashion mag, a music mag, or a weekly mag make the connection easy to remember. Use mag comfortably in conversation, headlines, or informal promotional writing, but choose the full form magazine when a neutral or more formal style is appropriate.
mag の類義語・関連語
mag の語源・成り立ち Etymology
magはmagazineの口語的短縮形。magazineはアラビア語makhazin（倉庫・貯蔵庫）が語源で、フランス語magasinを経て英語に入った。元は「情報の貯蔵庫」という比喩から定期刊行物を指すようになった。同根語にmagasin（仏語で店）がある。
Mag is an informal shortening of magazine. Magazine entered English through French magasin, ultimately from Arabic makhāzin, the plural of makhzan, meaning a storehouse. English first used magazine for a place where goods or ammunition were stored. The later sense of a periodical developed through the metaphor of a publication as a storehouse or collection of information.
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