dayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English day, from 古期英語 dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”); see there for more.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Dutch dag (“day”), German Low German Dag (“day”), Alemannic German Däi (“day”), German Tag (“day”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag (“day”), Icelandic dagur (“day”), Gothic �������� (dags, “day”). Possible cognates beyond Germanic relatives include Albanian djeg (“to burn”), Lithuanian degti (“to burn”), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian жечь (žečʹ, “to burn”) from *degti, дёготь (djógotʹ, “tar, pitch”), Sanskrit दाह (dāhá, “heat”), दहति (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).

Latin diēs is a false cognate; it derives from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: dā, IPA^(key): /deɪ̯/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: dā, IPA^(key): /dæɪ̯/
• 韻: -eɪ
• Homophone: dey

名詞

day (複数形 days)

1. Any period of 24 hours.

   I've been here for two days and a bit.

2. (informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.

   Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.

3. A period from midnight to the following midnight, into which a week, month, or year is divided, based on the rotation of the earth on its axis.

   The day begins at midnight.

   Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day

4. (astronomy) Rotational period of a planet.

   A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.

5. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.

   I worked two days last week.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     “ […] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”

6. Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.

   day and night;  I work at night and sleep during the day.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, […].

   Synonyms: daylight, upsun; see also Thesaurus:daytime

   Antonyms: night; see also Thesaurus:nighttime

8. A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.

   every dog has its day;  in that day;  back in the day; in those days

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.

   • 2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother‎^[200], Vanguard Press, →ISBN:

     In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.

   Synonyms: era, epoch; see also Thesaurus:era

9. A period of contention of a day or less.

   The day belonged to the Allies.

10. (Judaism) A time period from a nightfall until the following nightfall

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関連する語

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: dei

参照

• Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.

動詞

day (三人称単数 現在形 days, 現在分詞 daying, 過去形および過去分詞形 dayed)

1. (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 233:

     I nighted and dayed in Damascus town[.]

参考

• (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,‎ Monday,‎ Tuesday,‎ Wednesday,‎ Thursday,‎ Friday,‎ Saturday ^{(Category: en:Days of the week)}
• Sabbath
• calendar

アナグラム

• d'ya, y'ad, yad