pete
ピート
解説 Definition
Pete は英語圏で使われる男性名です。多くの場合、Peter（ピーター）の短い呼び名として使われます。
Pete is a masculine given name commonly used as a familiar short form of Peter. It may be used as a person’s everyday name even when Peter is the name recorded officially.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
Pete は多くの場合 Peter の親しい短縮形で、固有名詞なので Pete と大文字で書きます。Peter → Pete では末尾の -er を省き、短く呼びやすくした形と捉えましょう。発音は「ピート」で、泥炭を意味する同音語 peat と区別します。named Pete、call him Pete など、人を紹介したり呼んだりする場面で覚えます。
Remember Pete as the familiar short form of Peter. The ending -er is removed, leaving the shorter name Pete, pronounced like “peet.” Because it is a personal name, it should normally begin with a capital P. Learn it in natural patterns such as a student named Pete, call him Pete, or Pete joined our class. The identical pronunciation can cause confusion with peat, the dark organic material found in wet ground, but the spelling and capitalization usually make the intended meaning clear. Peter and Pete refer to names; peat refers to soil-like material.
例文
My friend uses Pete as his English name.
私の友人は英語名としてピートを使っています。
A student named Pete joined our class.
ピートという名前の生徒が私たちのクラスに入りました。
The teacher called Pete after class.
先生は授業の後でピートを呼びました。
pete の類義語・関連語
派生語
pete の語源・成り立ち Etymology
Pete は男性名 Peter の短縮形で、Peter はギリシャ語 Petros「岩」に由来します。新約聖書では「岩のように堅固な人」の含みがあり、愛称 Pete にもその語感が残ります。同根語に petrify, petroleum。
Pete developed in English as a shortened, familiar form of the masculine name Peter. Peter comes through Latin Petrus from Greek Petros, meaning “stone” or “rock.” The name became especially widespread through Saint Peter in the New Testament. Pete preserves the identity of the longer name without functioning as an independent word meaning “rock.” English words such as petrify and petroleum contain the related Greek element petr- or petro-, referring to stone or rock.
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