Idyllとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin īdyllium, from Ancient Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidúllion), from diminutive of εἶδος (eîdos, “form, shape”).

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: ĭdʹĭl, ĭdʹəl; IPA: /ˈɪd.ɪl/, /ˈɪd.əl/
• 韻: -ɪdɪl, -ɪdəl
• (米国発音) enPR: īʹdĭl, īʹdəl; IPA: /ˈaɪ.dɪl/, /ˈaɪ.dəl/
• 韻: -aɪdɪl, -aɪdəl
• 異形同音異義語: idle, idol (米国発音)

名詞

idyll (plural idylls)

1. Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
   • 2012 September 21, Justine Jordan, “John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk – review”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 December 2013:

     Its pages contain not just recipes but an idyll of prelapsarian plenty, passed down the generations by those who still connect with pagan forces: Saturnus and his groaning table, a Saturnalia from the Golden Age.

2. An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
3. (music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

派生語

関連する語

• idyllic
• idyllical
• idyllically
• idyllist, idylist

参考

• idyll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “idyll”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “idyl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Dilly, dilly

名詞

idyll

1. alternative form of ydel (“idleness”)