revolutionaries
革命家
解説 Definition
revolutionaries は revolutionary（革命家、革命支持者）の複数形です。政治や社会の仕組みを大きく変えようとする人々を指し、文脈によって評価の響きが変わります。
Revolutionaries are people who support, organize, or take part in a revolution intended to transform a political or social system. The term is the plural of revolutionary and may sound approving, neutral, or critical depending on the speaker and context.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
revolutionaries は revolutionary「革命家」の複数形で、子音字 + y の y を i に替えて -es を付ける変化です。発音は /ˌrevəˈluːʃəneriz/。revolution「体制を大きく変える革命」+ 人を表す -ary と捉え、write pamphlets、oppose a regime など政治・社会変革を目指す複数の人々と結び付けます。
Revolutionaries is the plural of revolutionary. Because the singular ends in a consonant plus y, change y to i and add -es: revolutionary becomes revolutionaries. Pronounce the ending as /iz/. Build the meaning from revolution plus the person-forming ending -ary: these are people connected with efforts to overturn or radically change a political or social order. Typical clues include pamphlets, secret meetings, rebellion, regime, and political change. Remember that the label is viewpoint-sensitive; one writer’s revolutionaries may be another writer’s rebels or insurgents.
例文
The revolutionaries met in a small room.
革命家たちは小さな部屋で会いました。
Many revolutionaries wrote pamphlets to explain their ideas.
多くの革命家が自分たちの考えを説明するために小冊子を書きました。
The museum displays letters written by revolutionaries during that period.
その博物館には、その時代に革命家たちが書いた手紙が展示されています。
revolutionaries の類義語・関連語
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revolutionaries の語源・成り立ち Etymology
revolutionaries は revolutionary の複数形で、revolution + -ary「〜に関わる人」からできた語。revolution はラテン語 revolutio に由来し、re-「逆へ」+ volvere「回す」が語源で、revolve や evolution と同根だから、「体制をぐるりとひっくり返す人々」すなわち「革命家」となる。
Revolutionaries is the plural of revolutionary, formed by replacing final y with -ies. Revolutionary developed from revolution with the suffix -ary, which can identify a person associated with an activity or cause. Revolution comes through French and Late Latin revolutio, from Latin revolvere, “to roll back” or “turn around.” Its earlier sense of circular movement later developed into the political sense of a sweeping change in government or society.
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