Saintとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English saint, seint, sainct, seinct, sanct, senct, partly from 古期英語 sanct (“saint”) and confluence with Old French saint, seinte (Modern French saint); both from Latin sanctus (“holy, consecrated”, in Late Latin as a noun, “a saint”), past participle of sancire (“to render sacred, make holy”), akin to sacer (“holy, sacred”). Displaced native Middle English halwe (“saint”) from 古期英語 hālga (“saint, holy one”) (> Modern English hallow (“saint”)).

名詞

Francis of Assisi, a Catholic saint.

saint (複数形 saints)

1. A person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.

   Kateri Tekakwitha was proclaimed a saint.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Corinthians 1:2:

     Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, called to be Saints, with all that in euery place call vpon the Name of Iesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.

2. (figuratively, by extension) A person with positive qualities; one who does good.

   Dorothy Day was a living saint.

   Thanks for looking after the house while I'm away. You're a saint!

3. One of the blessed in heaven.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 742–744:

     Then ſhall thy Saints unmixt, and from th' impure
     Farr ſeparate, circling thy holy Mount
     Unfained Halleluiahs to thee ſing,

4. (archaic) A holy object.
   • 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], OCLC 1006139495, Proverbes 20:25, page 299:

     It is ruine to a man to deuoure ſaintes, and afterward to retracte the vowes.

同意語

• (holy person): hallow (廃れた用法)

派生語

参考

• hallow
• holos
• holy

語源 2

From Middle English saynten, seinten, sonten, partly from Anglo-Norman saintir and partly from the noun Middle English seint, seynt (see above).

動詞

saint (三人称単数 現在形 saints, 現在分詞 sainting, 過去形および過去分詞形 sainted)

1. (transitive) To canonize, to formally recognize someone as a saint.

   Many wish to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately.

語源 3

From the pattern of naming various places for Saints from religion.

接頭辞

saint

1. (toponymy) A prefix attached to another term, used to create placenames. The resultant placename need not be associated with any religious saint character.

Further reading

• saint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• saint in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

アナグラム

• Astin, Insta, Santi, Sinta, Tanis, Tians, antis, insta-, sat in, satin, stain, stian, tians, tisan