Milesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

miles

1. plural of mile
2. (informal) A great distance in space or time.

   His final shot missed the bullseye by miles.

   From the top of the hill you can see for miles.

   No need to hurry. The deadline is miles away.

副詞

miles (not comparable)

1. much; a lot (used to emphasise a 比較級)

   Her new paintings are miles better than her older ones.

   • 1972, Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Knopf, page 129:

     The recipe was miles too strong.

アナグラム

• Imels, Liems, Selim, limes, milse, misle, slime, smile

Latin

別の表記

• milex (Vulgar または Late Latin, Appendix Probi)

語源

Unknown. Possibly of Etruscan origin. The suffix seems similar to that of pedes, eques, veles, comes, but the origin of mīl- is opaque. A connection to mīlia (“thousands”), perhaps as "person going by the thousand(s)", is difficult to confidently motivate semantically.^[1]

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.les/, [ˈmiːɫ̪ɛs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.les/, [ˈmiːles]

名詞

mīles m or f (genitive mīlitis); third declension

1. (military) A soldier.

   mīles gregārius ― a private (lit., a "common soldier")

2. (Medieval Latin) A knight.
3. A man in boardgames such as ludus latrunculi and chess.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参考

Chess pieces in Latin · latrunculi, milites scaccorum (layout · text)
rex	regina	turris	episcopus	eques	pedes

参照

• “miles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “miles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• miles in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• miles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to fire with courage: animos militum accendere
    
  • to give furlough, leave of absence to soldiers: commeatum militibus dare (opp. petere)
    
  • veterans; experienced troops: vetus miles, veteranus miles
    
  • a soldier lightly armed, ready for battle: expeditus (opp. impeditus) miles
    
  • to pay the troops: stipendium dare, numerare, persolvere militibus
    
  • to encourage, embolden the soldiery: animos militum confirmare (B. G. 5. 49)
    
  • (ambiguous) to levy troops: milites (exercitum) scribere, conscribere
    
  • (ambiguous) to compel communities to provide troops: imperare milites civitatibus
    
  • (ambiguous) to make soldiers take the military oath: milites sacramento rogare, adigere
    
  • (ambiguous) light infantry: milites levis armaturae
    
  • (ambiguous) soldiers collected in haste; irregulars: milites tumultuarii (opp. exercitus iustus) (Liv. 35. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) mercenary troops: milites mercennarii or exercitus conducticius
    
  • (ambiguous) to keep good discipline amongst one's men: milites disciplina coercere
    
  • (ambiguous) to keep good discipline amongst one's men: milites coercere et in officio continere (B. C. 1. 67. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to take the troops to their winter-quarters: milites in hibernis collocare, in hiberna deducere
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave troops to guard the camp: praesidio castris milites relinquere
    
  • (ambiguous) to harangue the soldiers: contionari apud milites (B. C. 1. 7)
    
  • (ambiguous) to harangue the soldiers: contionem habere apud milites
    
  • (ambiguous) to disembark troops: milites in terram, in terra exponere
    
• miles in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

アナグラム

• limes