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語源 1

From Middle French agathe, from Latin achatēs, from Ancient Greek ἀχάτης (akhátēs, “agate”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɡ.ət/
  • Rhymes: -æɡət

名詞

agate (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 agates)

1. (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 9:

     The ends of the veil, drawn over her head, were embroidered with silver; she had long gold ear-rings; to a rich and large gold chain was suspended a cross set with precious stones; and over the arm of her chair hung a rosary of agate beads.

   • 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 86:

     Yes: living among the cohabations^[sic] of Faust himself, among the litharge and agate and hyacinth and pearls.

2. (uncountable, US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+¹⁄₂-point.
3. (countable, typography) One fourteenth of an inch.
4. (countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
5. (countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
6. (countable) A marble made from agate.
7. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

同意語

• (type size): (英国用法) ruby
• (marble): aggie

上位語

• silica (any mineral of the silica group)

下位語

• (鉱物学): fortification agate, Scotch pebble; moss agate, clouded agate

派生語

関連する語

• aggie

語源 2

a- (“on”) +‎ gate (“way”)

発音

• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /əˈɡæt/

副詞

agate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) On the way; agoing.
   • 1554, Interlude of Youth:

     Go to it then hardily, and let us be agate.

   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], OCLC 3163777:

     I'm fear'd you have some ill plans agate.