Segとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 segge, from 古期英語 seċġ (“man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz (“follower, retainer, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow, accompany”). Cognate with Norwegian segg, Icelandic seggur (“bully”).

別の表記

• segge (obsolete)

名詞

seg (plural segs)

1. (archaic) A man; warrior; hero.
2. (UK dialectal) A man; fellow.

語源 2

Probably from the root of Latin secāre (“to cut”).

名詞

seg (plural segs)

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A castrated farm animal.

語源 3

Clipping of segregation.

名詞

seg (uncountable)

1. (US prison slang) Segregation.
   • 1988 July 15, Albert Williams, “Prison Drama”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     […] when a prisoner is transferred or paroled or sent to "seg" (segregation) or hauled back into court, they don't ask if he's busy with a lead role in a play.

派生語

• ad-seg

形容詞

seg (not comparable)

1. Designated for people of color

   Black members of the order were relegated to seg lodges.

関連する語

• seggie

語源 4

Genericized trademark of Blakey's Segs, a British brand of shoe protector. Formed as an apocopic form of (steel) segment.

名詞

seg (plural segs)

1. (UK) A shoe protector (metal stud or plate affixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear).

   Synonym: blakey

   Coordinate term: hobnail

2. (dialect) (Can we verify this sense?) A callus, an area of hardened skin.

語源 5

See sedge.

名詞

seg

1. Sedge.
2. Gladen, or other species of Iris.
   • 1805 January, “Observations made in a Tour through parts of Orkney and Shetland in 1894”, in The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, volume 67, number 1, page 26:

     In one district of Stronsa, I observed several acres covered with the common yellow flag, or seg (iris pseudacorus,) of which a very coarse kind of hay is here made.

   • 2019, Roy Vickery, Vickery's Folk Flora, page lxxiii:

     It's also believed that anyone who bites a seg will develop an impediment of speech, such as a stammer.

   • 2020, Ernest Marwick, The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland:

     Boats were made of wood, paper or segs (the leaves of the yellow flag). For some reason, children in Stenness (O) were warned that if they chewed seg leaves they would become dumb.

語源 6

名詞

seg (plural segs)

1. (broadcasting) Clipping of segment.
   • 1951 December 15, Billboard, page 6:

     The usual partisanship for bankrollers of radio segs is shown on TV stations.

   • 1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 12:

     In 1992, Mort's doing a political/chat show for the Christian Scientists Monitor Channel, and in January did a seg singing praises for Garrison.

アナグラム

• EGs, ESG, E.S.G., GSE, SGE, gEs

名詞

seg

1. alternative form of segge (“sedge”)

語源 2

名詞

seg

1. alternative form of segge (“man”)