bletとは意味・読み方・使い方

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WOTD – 4 September 2009

語源

Borrowed from French blettir, coined by John Lindley.

発音

(英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /blɛt/
韻: -ɛt

動詞

blet (third-person singular simple present blets, present participle bletting, simple past and past participle bletted)

To undergo or cause to undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.
- c. 1835, B. Maund, The Botanic Garden, Or, Magazine of Flowering Plants, Volume 6, Simpkin & Marshall, page 115,
  
  Bletting is in particular a special alteration; it appears that the more austere a fruit is before this is brought on, the more it is capable of bletting regularly.
- 2011, Mark Diacono, Fruit: River Cottage Handbook No.9, Bloomsbury Publishing, unnumbered page:
  
  You can also hasten the bletting process by giving firm medlars a night in the freezer. I usually pick some medlars early to blet a little indoors, as this is perfect for making jelly, whereas fully soft fruit is ideal for any other use.
- 2021, Adele Nozedar, The Tree Forager, Watkins Media, unnumbered page:
  
  For example, you wouldn't be happy if you bit into a medlar. They need to be bletted (left to go over-ripe) before you can eat them but, once bletted, medlars taste sweet – a little bit like dates. […] To be frank, bletting is a more polite word for "rotting".

参考

名詞

blet (plural blets)

A soft spot on fruit caused by bletting.

参照

^ John Lindley (1835), Introduction to Botany, page 296:

After the period of ripeness, most fleshy fruits undergo a new kind of alteration; their flesh either rots or blets. […] May I be forgiven for coining a word to express that peculiar bruised appearance in some fruits, called blessi by the French, for which we have no equivalent English expression ?

Emphasis and footnote in original, and though written as blessi, the French word for bletted is bletti, and Lindley coined “blet”, suggesting an error in the text.

アナグラム

Belt, belt

古期英語

発音

IPA: /bleːt/

動詞

blēt

third-person singular present indicative of blōtan

[1] John Lindley (1835), Introduction to Botany, page 296:

After the period of ripeness, most fleshy fruits undergo a new kind of alteration; their flesh either rots or blets. […] May I be forgiven for coining a word to express that peculiar bruised appearance in some fruits, called blessi by the French, for which we have no equivalent English expression ?

Emphasis and footnote in original, and though written as blessi, the French word for bletted is bletti, and Lindley coined “blet”, suggesting an error in the text.


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