concubineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 concubine (first attested 1250–1300), from Anglo-Norman concubine, from Latin concubīna, equivalent to concub- (variant stem of concumbō (“to lie together”)) + feminine suffix -īna.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈkɑŋkjəbaɪn/

名詞

concubine (plural concubines)

1. A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.

   Synonyms: mistress, sprunk; see also Thesaurus:sexual partner, Thesaurus:mistress

2. A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.

   Synonyms: cohabitor, cohabitant, domestic partner

   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     And that is more than I will yield unto: / I know I am too mean to be your queen, / And yet too good to be your concubine.

3. (chiefly historical) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.

   Synonym: odalisque

   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

     He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch,
     And in my Sarell tend my Concubines:

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 20:4–6:

     And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

   • c. 1909, Mark Twain, “Letter VIII”, in Letters from the Earth:

     Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.

派生語

参考

• harem
• polygamy
• co-wife
• seraglio

参照

• Random House Unabridged Dictionary
• “concubine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

語源

From Anglo-Norman concubine, from Latin concubīna.

発音

• IPA: /kɔnkiu̯ˈbiːn(ə)/

名詞

concubine (plural concubines)

1. A concubine; a secondary female partner.
2. (rare) A illegitimate or unacknowledged partner (male or female)

派生した語

• English: concubine

参照

• “concūbīn(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 September 2018.