Wileとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and 古期英語 wīl (“wile, trick”) and wiġle (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle. Doublet of guile.

名詞

wile (plural wiles)

1. (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

   He was seduced by her wiles.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     to frustrate all our plots and wiles

   • 1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser:

     Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.

同意語

• beguilement
• allurement

派生語

• wileful
• wily

関連する語

• guile

動詞

wile (third-person singular simple present wiles, present participle wiling, simple past and past participle wiled)

1. (transitive) To entice or lure.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree.

派生語

• bewile
• outwile
• wile out

語源 2

The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away. We can trace the meaning in an adjectival sense for while back to 古期英語, hwīlen, "passing, transitory". It is also seen in whilend, "temporary, transitory". But since wile away occurs so often, it is now included in many dictionaries.

動詞

wile

1. Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”).

   Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.

   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

     “A fear of what?” asked the gentleman, who seemed to pity her.
     “I scarcely know of what,” replied the girl. “I wish I did. Horrible thoughts of death, and shrouds with blood upon them, and a fear that has made me burn as if I was on fire, have been upon me all day. I was reading a book to-night, to wile the time away, and the same things came into the print.”

参照

• Grammarist.com While away or wile away?
• Common Errors in the English Language Wile Away, While Away

アナグラム

• Lewi, Liew, Weil, lwei

発音

• IPA: /ˈwiːl(ə)/

名詞

wile

1. wile, trick, artifice
2. a sorcerer

派生語

• wili

派生した語

• English: wile