attameとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from the Middle English attāmen, itself borrowed from the Old French atamer, itself inherited from the Latin attāminō.

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈteɪm/

動詞

attame (三人称単数 現在形 attames, 現在分詞 attaming, 過去形および過去分詞形 attamed)

1. (obsolete) To pierce; to attack.
2. (obsolete) To broach; to begin.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologue of the Nonnes Preest”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     And right anon his tale he hath atamed.

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