acountenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman acounter, aconter; equivalent to acounte (“account”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix) or a- +‎ counten (“to count”).

発音

• IPA: /aˈkuːntən/

動詞

acounten (third-person singular simple present acounteth, present participle acountende, acountynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle acounted)

1. To measure or calculate (especially time):
   1. To count (enumerate; give the number of)

      Synonym: counten

   2. (rare) To amount to; to equal.
2. To narrate or recount; to provide an accounting:

   Synonym: counten

   1. To maintain or provide accounts of finances.
   2. To answer for; to justify or expiate.
3. To reckon, value or consider.
   • c. 1370, [William Langland], “[Passus 7]”, in Piers Plowman (La, A-text), Shropshire, published c. 1400, folio 123, recto; republished as Hale 150, London: Lincoln’s Inn Rare Books and Manuscripts Online, 4 April 2023:

     I was not wont to woꝛche ꝗd waſtour now I wol not bẏgẏn / And let lightlich of hıs loꝛe ⁊ eke of him seoluen / And acounteth Piers at a peoſe ⁊ his plogh after / And manaſſed him ⁊ eke hıs men when þeẏ next mette

     "I wasn't used to working", said Waster, "and now I won't start." / And [he] takes his learning lightly and him the same way, views Piers like a pea and his plough as worse, and threatened him alongside his men [for] when they next met.

4. (rare) To count as or consider a member of a group.

Conjugation

派生した語

• English: account, accompt

参照

• “acǒunten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.