boldとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English bold, from 古期英語 bold, blod, bolt, botl (“house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple”), from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą (“house, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, wax, swell”) or *bʰuH-.

Cognate with Old Frisian bold (“house”) (whence North Frisian bol, boel, bøl (“house”)), North Frisian bodel, budel (“property, inheritance”), Middle Low German būdel (“property, real estate”). Related to build.

別の表記

• bolde, boolde (both 廃れた用法)

名詞

bold (複数形 bolds)

1. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.

関連する語

• bottle
• build

語源 2

From Middle English bold, bolde, bald, beald, from 古期英語 bald, beald (“bold, brave, confident, strong, of good courage, presumptuous, impudent”), from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰlē- (“to bloat, swell, bubble”).

Cognate with Dutch boud (“bold, courageous, fearless”), Middle High German balt (“bold”) (whence German bald (“soon”)), Swedish båld (“bold, dauntless”). Perhaps related to Albanian ballë (“forehead”) and Old Prussian balo (“forehead”). For semantic development compare Italian affrontare (“to face, to deal with”), sfrontato (“bold, daring, insolent”), both from Latin frons (“forehead”).

形容詞

bold (comparative bolder, superlative boldest)

1. Courageous, daring.

   Bold deeds win admiration and, sometimes, medals.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 239c.

     It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.

2. Visually striking; conspicuous.

   the painter's bold use of colour and outline

3. (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.

   The last word of this sentence is bold.

4. Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
   • 1748, [David Hume], “Essay I. On the different Species of Philosophy.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 642589706, part I, page 18:

     […] even the boldeſt and moſt affirmative Philoſophy, which has ever attempted to impoſe its crude Dictates and Principles on Mankind.

5. (Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.

   All of her children are terribly bold and never do as they are told.

6. Full-bodied.
7. (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
8. Steep or abrupt.
   • 1808, William Bernard Cooke, A New Picture of the Isle of Wight, page 144:

     The grounds descend with a bold slope to the water's edge, and rise finely upwards above the mansion, abounding with fine trees, and ornamented by a range of building at a distance, in a corresponding style […]

同意語

• (courageous): audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward, doughty
• See also Thesaurus:brave

派生語

• boldacious

関連する語

• bield
• bolden
• boldness
• embolden

語源 3

From Middle English bolden, balden, from 古期英語 baldian, bealdian, from Proto-Germanic *balþōną, related to *balþaz (see above). Cognate with Old High German irbaldōn (“to become bold, dare”).

動詞

bold (三人称単数 現在形 bolds, 現在分詞 bolding, 過去形および過去分詞形 bolded)

1. (transitive) To make (a font または some text) bold.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.
   • c. 1603–1606, [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, OCLC 54196469, [Act V, scene i]:

     […] for this buſines,

     It touches vs, as France inuades our land

     Not bolds the King, with others whome I feare,

     Moſt iuſt and heauy cauſes make oppoſe.

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold.

アナグラム

• BLOD

語源

Probably representing an earlier *bodl, *boþl, from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *bōþlą, from an instrumental form of *būaną (“to dwell”). Compare Old Norse ból. More at suffix -eld.

発音

• IPA^(key): /bold/, [boɫd]

名詞

bold n

1. house, dwelling, building

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