coffinとは

意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• cophin (古風な用法)

語源

From Middle English cofin, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒfɪn/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔfɪn/
• (米国発音, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑfɪn/
• 韻: -ɒfɪn
• 韻: -ɒfən

名詞

coffin (複数形 coffins)

1. A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

   Synonym: casket (米国用法)

   • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?

     I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.

2. (cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.
3. (obsolete) A basket.
   • 1382–1395, John Wycliffe et al. (translators), Matthew 14:20

     And all ate, and were filled. And they took the reliefs of broken gobbets, twelve coffins full.

4. (archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
   • c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Of the paste a coffin I will rear.

   • 1596, The Good Huswife's Jewell

     Take your mallard and put him into the iuyce of the sayde Onyons, and season him with pepper, and salte, cloues and mace, then put your Mallard into the coffin with the saide iuyce of the onyons.

5. (obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)

6. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
7. A storage container for nuclear waste.

使用する際の注意点

• The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.

派生語

動詞

coffin (三人称単数 現在形 coffins, 現在分詞 coffining, 過去形および過去分詞形 coffined)

1. (transitive) To place in a coffin.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 19, in Klee Wyck‎^[1]:

     Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining.

   • 2007, Barbara Everett, "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books, 29:6, page 21:

     The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.

同意語

• encoffin

Further reading

• coffin on Wikipedia.