balaunceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French balance, from Late Latin *bilancia.

発音

• (Early Middle English) IPA: /baˈlau̯ntsə/, /baˈlantsə/
• IPA: /baˈlau̯ns(ə)/, /baˈlans(ə)/, /baˈlaːns(ə)/

名詞

balaunce (plural balaunces)

1. A (half of a) set of scales; a balance
2. The ensuring of fairness and justness via reasoning and consideration, especially legally.
3. Luck, happenstance, destiny; the passage of random events.
4. Endangerment, threatening; the taking of chances or bets.
5. Indecisiveness, unsureness, hesitation.
6. (astrology, astronomy) Libra (constellation; member of the Zodiac)

派生した語

• English: balance
• Scots: ballance

参照

• “balaunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 May 2018.