ameneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 amene, from Middle French amene, from Latin amoenus (“pleasant”).

発音

• IPA: /əˈmiːn/

形容詞

amene (comparative more amene, superlative most amene)

1. (obsolete, uncommon) Pleasant; agreeable.
   • 1866, Allan Ramsay(?), The Poetical Works of Allan Ramsay. With Selections from the Scottish Poets, page 295:

     MAY is a month maist amene / For them in Venus' service bene, / To recreate their heavy hearts: […]

   • 1870, Richard Francis Burton, Letters from the Battlefields of Paraguay, page 145:

     Nothing can be more amene or gracious than this modified Pampa form in fine weather.

関連する語

• amenity
• amenous

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “amene”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “amene”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “amene”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

アナグラム

• Ameen, Menae, Naeem, enema, meane