ceteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cete (plural cetes)

1. (rare) A cetacean.

語源 2

名詞

cete (plural cetes)

1. (obsolete) A group of badgers; the warren of a group of badgers.

   Near-synonyms: clan, sett

   Hypernyms: burrow, earth, warren

   • 1927, Alfred Tresidder Sheppard, Here Comes an Old Sailor‎, page 246:

     He told how the herons always came at St. Valentine's to Felborough Wood and Chilham, and how the terns came in screaming gaggles when September was ending, and where the squirrels' drays were mostly found, and where he had seen a cete of badgers.

   • 2013, Scott W. Guttormson, The Badger War‎, Trafford Publishing:

     Beasts from across the land, from different families, from different cetes, had gathered in one tunnel to set aside their differences and join the new cause.

   • 1898, Sir Alfred Edward Pease, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, Lawrence and Bullen, page 44:

     A badger's earth or warren is properly and generally called a "set" or "cete." vary in respect of size, number of entrances, depth of galleries, and choice of site almost as much as rabbit-holes.

   • (Can we date this quote?), The Arcadian Calendar‎, These, the nearest British representatives of the bears, are the county families among wild creatures, in virtue of their fidelity to their cete (or "set"), as the badger's residence is called. There are old family cetes in England which have been occupied for centuries., page 39:

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “cete”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

名詞

ċēte f

1. (Anglian) alternative form of ċȳte

名詞

cētē

1. nominative/accusative plural of cētos

語源 2

名詞

cēte

1. vocative singular of cētus

参照

• “cete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cete”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers