コンセント

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Japanese

コンセント (konsento), a Japanese wall socket

Etymology

Clipping of コンセントリックプラグ (konsentorikku puragu), wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from concentric +‎ plug,[1][2][3] used since the late Meiji period.[1] Sometimes the source word is mistaken for the unrelated English consent which would be transliterated the same way.

Pronunciation

Noun

コンセント • (konsento) 

  1. a wall socket; an outlet

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Korean: 콘센트 (konsenteu)

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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