saxophone
サックス
解説 Definition
saxophone は、金属製の管楽器であるサックスを意味します。日本語では「サックス」と略して言うことが多いですが、英語では正式には saxophone と言います。
A metal wind instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece, a curved or straight tube, and keys. It is widely used in jazz, popular music, concert bands, and some classical music.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
saxophone は発明者 Adolphe Sax の姓 Sax と、ギリシャ語由来で「音・声」を表す -phone の組み合わせです。telephone や microphone の -phone と結び付ければ、「Sax 氏の音の楽器」と整理できます。金属製ですが、リードで音を出すため木管楽器に分類されます。会話では sax と短縮され、play the saxophone の形が典型です。
Divide saxophone into Sax and -phone. Sax is the surname of Adolphe Sax, who invented the instrument, while -phone comes from a Greek word for “sound” or “voice,” also seen in telephone and microphone. This gives a reliable memory link: the instrument carrying “Sax’s sound.” Picture someone playing the saxophone in a school band or practicing a jazz solo. Although its body is usually metal, it uses a single reed and is classified as a woodwind instrument. In everyday English, saxophone is often shortened to sax, especially in phrases such as alto sax or sax solo.
例文
She plays the saxophone in the school band.
彼女は学校のバンドでサックスを演奏しています。
The saxophone has a warm and strong sound.
サックスは温かみがあり力強い音がします。
He bought a new saxophone for jazz practice.
彼はジャズの練習のために新しいサックスを買いました。
saxophone の類義語・関連語
saxophone の語源・成り立ち Etymology
フランス語 saxophone からで、発明者 Adolphe Sax の姓 Sax に、ギリシャ語 phōnē『音・声』由来の -phone が結びついた語です。つまり『サックス氏の音の出る楽器』という成り立ちです。関連語は telephone、microphone です。
English saxophone comes from French saxophone, a name combining Sax, the surname of Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax, with -phone. That element derives from Greek phōnē, “voice” or “sound,” and also appears in words such as telephone and microphone. Sax developed and patented the instrument family in the nineteenth century. The full name was later shortened informally to sax, while saxophone remains the standard formal term.
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