widowed
配偶者を亡くした
解説 Definition
widowed は widow（配偶者を亡くして未亡人・男やもめにする）に由来する過去分詞形の形容詞です。配偶者を亡くした状態を表し、女性だけでなく男性にも使えます。
Widowed describes a person whose spouse has died and who has not remarried. As an adjective, it can refer to either a woman or a man, especially in phrases such as a widowed parent or in the expression become widowed.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
widowed は widow に -ed を付けた過去分詞由来の形容詞で、-ed は /d/ と発音します。「配偶者を亡くした状態」を表し、widowed mother だけでなく widowed father にも使えます。女性に限定される widow という名詞とは違い、widowed は男女どちらにも使える点を押さえましょう。
Widowed is formed from widow plus -ed, with the ending pronounced /d/. Remember it as a description of marital status after a spouse has died: a widowed mother, a widowed father, or a widowed parent. Although the noun widow traditionally refers to a woman and widower to a man, the adjective widowed works for either sex. The phrase become widowed focuses on entering that state. Keep it separate from divorced or separated, because widowed specifically indicates that the person’s spouse has died.
例文
Her widowed mother lives nearby.
彼女の配偶者を亡くした母親は近くに住んでいます。
The group offers support to widowed parents.
その団体は配偶者を亡くした親たちを支援しています。
He became widowed after many years of marriage.
彼は長年の結婚生活の後、配偶者を亡くしました。
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widowed の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語 widewe（配偶者を失った者）から。印欧祖語 *widh-ewā（分かれた者）に由来し、語根 *widh- は「分離する」の意。ラテン語 vidua（寡婦）も同根で、英語 divide（分ける）とも遠縁。「分かたれた人」が原義。
Widowed is the past participle of the verb widow, used adjectivally. Widow comes from Old English widewe and ultimately belongs to an Indo-European word family associated with separation or being left apart. Related forms include Latin vidua, meaning a woman deprived of her husband. The ending -ed marks the resulting state: a person has lost a spouse and is therefore described as widowed.
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