daungerousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman daungerous (continental Old French dangeros), from daunger; thus by surface analysis, daunger (“power, resistance, danger”) +‎ -ous (“-ous”). First attested in c. 1230.

発音

• IPA: /ˌdau̯nd͡ʒəˈruːs/, /ˈdau̯nd͡ʒ(ə)rus/

形容詞

daungerous

1. Difficult to accommodate; severe, unsympathetic:
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     My wages ben fule straite, and eke full smale; / My lorde is harde to me and daungerous.

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   1. Disdainful, particular; hard to please.
   2. Reserved, standoffish; not affable or congenial.
      • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

        Of his speech daungerous

        Of his speech, dangerous

   3. (rare) Overbearing, arrogant; displaying excessive dominance.
2. Dangerous, risky; involving danger.
3. (pathology, rare) Difficult to cure or treat.

派生した語

• English: dangerous
• Middle Scots: dangerous, daingerous
  • Scots: dangerous

参照

• “daunǧerǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “dangerous, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “dangerous, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.