Hallowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Inherited from 中期英語 halwe (“a saint, holy thing, shrine”), from 古期英語 hālga (“a holy one, saint”), from Proto-Germanic *hailagô (“holy one”), from *hailagaz (“holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, hale”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Scots halow, hallow (“saint”), German Heiliger (“saint (male)”) / Heilige (“saint (female)”). More at holy, whole.

名詞

hallow (plural hallows)

1. (obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.

   All Hallows Eve (or Halloween), the night before All Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints' Day").

2. (obsolete, in the plural) The relics or shrines of saints or non-Christian gods.

   To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.

派生語

語源 2

Inherited from 中期英語 halwen (“to hallow, sanctify”), from 古期英語 hālgian (“to hallow, sanctify, make holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailagōną (“to make holy”), from *hailagaz (“holy”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, hale”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed”). Cognate with Dutch heiligen (“to hallow”), German heiligen (“to hallow”). More at holy.

動詞

hallow (third-person singular simple present hallows, present participle hallowing, simple past and past participle hallowed)

1. (transitive) To make holy, to sanctify.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     […] I am coming on, to venge me as I may and to put forth my rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.

   • 1847, Charles Swain, Dramatic Chapters: Poems and Songs, D. Bogue, page 324:

     Come hallow the goblet with something more true / Than words we forget in a minute.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:consecrate

派生語

語源 3

Inherited from 中期英語 halowen, from halow (interjection), from 古期英語 ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”, interjection), probably conflated with Old French halloer.

別の表記

• halow, alow, a lo (obsolete)
• hallo, hollo

動詞

hallow (third-person singular simple present hallows, present participle hallowing, simple past and past participle hallowed)

1. To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:

     […] for the conversation (if it may be called so) was seldom such as could entertain a lady. It consisted chiefly of hallowing, singing, relations of sporting adventures, b—d—y, and abuse of women, and of the government.

名詞

hallow (plural hallows)

1. A shout, cry; a hulloo.
   • 1777, Robin Hood's Chase, reprinted in
     2003, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Courier Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 206:

     Then away they went from merry Sherwood / And into Yorkshire he did hie / And the King did follow, with a hoop and a hallow / But could not come him nigh.

   • 1772, William Read Staples, The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee, Knowles, Vose, and Anthony, published 1845, page 14:

     I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel's bows.

語源 4

形容詞

hallow (comparative more hallow, superlative most hallow)

1. Alternative spelling of hollow.
   • 1902, National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.), The Journal of Geography, National Council for Geographic Education, page 93:

     If the sun were a hallow sphere of its present size and the earth were placed at the center[...]. Such a hallow sphere would hold more than a million balls the size of the earth.

   • 2003, George A. Lyall, To a Different Drummer: A Family's Story, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 208:

     But it was not a hallow victory.

派生語