bornとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from 古期英語 boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *gaboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear +‎ -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).

動詞

born

1. past participle of bear; given birth to.

   Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.

2. (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
   • 1784, Thomas Sheridan, Life of Dr. Swift, Section I

     In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 286:

     If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have born any thing.

形容詞

born (not comparable)

1. Having from birth (または as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
   • 1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], “Part II”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], →OCLC, page 61:

     I'll make it out, deny it he that can, / His Worship is a True-born Engliſhman, / In all the Latitude that Empty Word / By Modern Acceptation's understood.

   • 1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major:

     I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.

   • 1965, Herbert, Frank, Dune‎^[1] (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 118‎^[2]:

     “Your desert boots are fitted slip-fashion at the ankles. Who told you to do that?”
     "It . . . seemed the right way."
     "That it most certainly is."
     And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them."

派生語

参考

• borne
• né, née

語源 2

Dialectal variant of burn.

名詞

born (複数形 borns)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

動詞

born (三人称単数 現在形 borns, 現在分詞 bornin, 過去形および過去分詞形 bornt)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)

Further reading

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [3]

アナグラム

• Brno, Norb

接尾辞

-born

1. (usually hyphenated, preceded by a noun または adjective) Born in or native to the place indicated.

   I am Scottish-born.

   I am Texas-born.

2. (sometimes hyphenated, usually preceded by an adjective) With respect to birth order or social rank.

   She is my firstborn child.

   He was a low-born rascal.

アナグラム

• Brno