Sherdとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (non-rhotic)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈʃɜːd/, [ˈʃɜːd]
• (rhotic)
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈʃɝd/, [ˈʃɝd]
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)d
• ハイフネーション: sherd

名詞

sherd (plural sherds)

1. (dated or archaeology) Alternative form of shard.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     the thigh […] which all in sherds it drove

     The spelling has been modernized.

使用する際の注意点

• In specialised [archaeological] usage, sherd is preferred over the more common form shard.

派生語

• potsherd

参照

• Shard and Sherd, in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.

アナグラム

• herds, shred