ゲームソフト
Japanese
editEtymology
editWasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from game + soft,[1] equivalent to ゲーム (gēmu, “video game”) + ソフト (sofuto, “software”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editゲームソフト • (gēmu sofuto)
- video game software (the program of a video game)
References
edit- ^ “ゲームソフト”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen][1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN