Cloveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 clove, an alteration of earlier clowe, borrowed from the first component of Old French clou (de girofle) (modern French clou de girofle), from Latin clāvus (“nail”) for its shape. Also see clāva (“knotty branch, club”). Doublet of clou and clavus.

名詞

clove (countable and uncountable, plural cloves)

1. (uncountable or countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
2. (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
3. (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
   • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202:

     Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.

   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 169:

     By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.

派生語

関連する語

• cloy
• cloying

語源 2

From 中期英語 clove, from 古期英語 clufu, from Proto-West Germanic *klubu, from Proto-Germanic *klubō, related to clēofan (“to cleave, split”), hence with the verbal etymology hereafter.

名詞

clove (plural cloves)

1. (horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.

   clove of garlic, garlic clove, clove of a sea-onion, clove of shallot, cloves of bulbs

語源 3

動詞

clove

1. simple past of cleave

関連する語

• clove hitch
• clove hook
• cloven

語源 4

Borrowed from Dutch klove (now kloof). Doublet of kloof.

名詞

clove (plural cloves)

1. (Northeastern US, geography) A narrow valley with steep sides.

使用する際の注意点

• Mainly used in proper names, such as Kaaterskill Clove, in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch.

参照

Further reading

• “clove”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “clove”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• clove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Covel

別の表記

• clof, clowe

発音

• IPA: /ˈklɔːv(ə)/

名詞

clove (plural cloves)

1. clove (bulb of garlic)

派生した語

• English: clove
• Scots: clow

参照

• “clōve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 July 2018.

語源 2

名詞

clove

1. alternative form of clowe

語源 3

名詞

clove

1. alternative form of cloven

語源 4

From 古期英語 clēaf, 1st- and 3rd- person simple past singular of clēofan, with the vowel from the past participle.

動詞

clove

1. simple past singular of cleven (“to split”)