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Jane

音節Jane 発音記号/dʒéɪn/

【名詞】

1 ジェイン 《女性名; 愛称 Janet，Jenny》.

2 [j] 【可算名詞】 《俗語》 女，女の子.

日英固有名詞辞典

Jane

人名

名前 ジェーン；ジェイン；ジーン

Wiktionary英語版

jane

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2012/04/26 23:39 UTC 版)

語源 1

From Old French Jannes (“Genoway”).

名詞

jane (複数形 janes)

1. (obsolete) A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century.

   His robe was of Chekelatoun, / That coste many a jane. — Chaucer.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     Certes was but a common Courtisane, / Yet flat refusd to haue a do with mee, / Because I could not giue her many a Iane.

語源 2

Alternative forms.

名詞

jane (複数形 janes)

1. alternative capitalization of Jane, "woman".
2. Alternative spelling of jean.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VII, Over-Production

     Ye miscellaneous, ignoble manufacturing individuals, ye have produced too much! We accuse you of making above two-hundred thousand shirts for the bare backs of mankind. Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch-plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold?

アナグラム

• jean, Jean
• Jena