grosso modoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

grosso modo (comparative more grosso modo, superlative most grosso modo)

1. roughly, circa or approximately
   • 1980. Henry Mehlberg, Robert Sonné Cohen. Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. p. 211.

     The fact that event B takes place in the interval separating events A and C has an invariant significance, which may be expressed grosso modo by saying that events which are closer together have more effects in common.

   • 1985. Edward W. Said. Orientalism Reconsidered. Cultural Critique, 1, pp. 94-95.

     Still others criticize Orientalism for falsifying the nature of Islam: these are, grosso modo, the fundamentalists.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɡrɔs.soː ˈmɔ.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɡrɔs.so ˈmɔː.do]

副詞

grossō modō (not comparable)

1. roughly, circa, approximately
2. coarsely