Chaucerとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English Chaucer, from Old French chaucier (“hose-maker, hosier”), from chauces (“clothing for the legs, breeches, pantaloons, hose”). Compare the modern loanword chausse.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔːsə/, enPR: chôʹsər
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔsɚ/, enPR: chôʹsər
  • (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑsɚ/, enPR: chŏsʹər
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoːsɘ/, enPR: chôʹsər
• 韻: -ɔːsə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: Chau‧cer

固有名詞

Chaucer

1. A rare medieval English surname from Old French.
2. Geoffrey Chaucer, a 14th-century English poet and author, best remembered for The Canterbury Tales; (by extension) his works.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 190:

     After all, the English hostel owes much of its charms to Chaucer; our associations are of his haunting pictures—his delicate Lady Prioress, his comely young squire, with their pleasant interchange of tale and legend, rise upon the mind's eye in all the fascination of his vivid delineations.

派生語