dauphineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from French dauphine, equivalent to dauphin +‎ -ine.

名詞

dauphine (plural dauphines)

1. The wife of the dauphin; dauphiness.

参照

• “dauphine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源 2

名詞

dauphine (plural dauphines)

1. Obsolete form of dauphin
   • 1683, John Watson, Memoires of the Family of the Stuarts, pages 129–130:

     Soon after the young Queen Mary growing on towards years fit for Marriage, bein of singular Beauty, and adorned with ſuch rare and admirable Parts both for Vertue and Wiſdom: the French King, Henry the Second (at whoſe Court, whither ſhe was conveyed ſoon after the Battel at Muſlebrugh, ſhe had ſuch Royal Education as well became her Birth) very earneſtly deſired to Marry her to his Eldeſt Son, the Dauphine of France ; to which purpoſe he writeth to the Queen Regent, deſiring that the Scotch Nobility might declare their Aſſent to this ſo much defired Marriage, and forthwith to ſend over certain Commiſſioners to be preſent at the Nuptials: [...]

   • 1707, Laurence Echard, The History of England, page 367:

     Theſe Miſeries ſoon began to approach: For it being ſignify’d to King Edward that John King of France had given the Dukedom of Gaſcony to his Son the Dauphine, being much incens’d he immediately beſtow’d that Province upon his invincible Son the Prince of Wales; commanding Him to defend his Right with his Sword againſt his Adverſaries.

   • 1809, Alexander Beaumont, The History of Spain, London, pages 390–391:

     The right of birth was in the house of Bourbon, the king and his son the Dauphine being both descended from the eldest daughters of Spain; but the Imperial family asserted, in support of their claim, beside the solemn and ratified renunciations of Lewis XIII. and XIV. of all title to the Spanish succession, the blood of Maximilian, the common father of both branches of the house of Austria, the right of male representation.