結婚式、婚礼
解説 Definition
結婚式や婚礼を表す名詞です。特に、式そのものや結婚を祝う一連の行事を少し改まって言うときに使います。
A formal word for a wedding ceremony or the events connected with a marriage. It is normally used in the plural form and often gives a more ceremonial, literary, or elevated tone than the everyday word wedding.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
nuptials は形が複数形で、通常この形のまま「結婚式・婚礼」を表す改まった名詞です。hold their nuptials、attend the nuptials のように ceremony や wedding より格式ある響きで使われます。形容詞 nuptial「結婚の」と結び付け、式典や一連の婚礼行事を思い浮かべましょう。
Connect nuptials with nuptial, the adjective meaning “related to marriage or a wedding.” Although it ends in -s, nuptials is normally used in this plural form to mean a wedding ceremony or its associated celebrations. Picture a couple holding their nuptials in a chapel while relatives attend. That formal scene matches the word’s elevated tone. In ordinary conversation, wedding is much more common; nuptials often appears in formal announcements, journalism, or deliberately ceremonial language.
例文
The couple held their nuptials in a small chapel.
そのカップルは小さな礼拝堂で結婚式を挙げました。
Many relatives came to the nuptials last weekend.
先週末の婚礼には多くの親戚が来ました。
Their nuptials were simple but beautiful.
彼らの結婚式は簡素でしたが美しいものでした。
nuptials の類義語・関連語
nuptials の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語nuptiae（結婚式）に由来し、語根はnubere（ベールをかぶる→結婚する）。古代ローマで花嫁がベールをかぶる婚礼の習慣から結婚式を意味するようになった。関連語: nubile（婚期の）、connubial（婚姻の）。
Nuptials came through French and Latin from Latin nuptiae, a plural noun meaning “wedding” or “marriage.” Nuptiae is related to nubere, “to marry” or, originally, “to veil oneself as a bride,” reflecting a Roman bridal custom. English retains the plural-looking form for the ceremony or celebrations. Nuptial, connubial, and nubile are historically related through the same Latin family.
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