di teとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Participle

-dite

1. vocative masculine singular of -ditus

発音

• IPA: /daɪt/
• 韻: -aɪt

動詞

dite (third-person singular simple present dites, present participle diting, simple past and past participle dited)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare for use or action; to make ready.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:

     His hideous club aloft he dites.

参照

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

語源 2

Variant of doit.

発音

• IPA: /daɪt/

名詞

dite (plural dites)

1. (US, Maine) A trifling quantity or amount.

   A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.

   • 2019, John Gould, This Trifling Distinction: Reminiscences from Down East, Down East Books, →ISBN, page 95:

     Two carpenters were moving a small building onto a new foundation, and one of them says, “Shove it my way a dite!” The other shoved, but shoved a little too hard. “Nope — too much! I said a dite!”

   • 1993, Ralph Moody, The Fields of Home, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 80:

     “Set your calipers a dite bigger’n the hole so’s they’ll fit good and snug.”

参照

アナグラム

• -tide, DIET, Diet, diet, diët, edit, edit., tide, tied

形容詞

dīte

1. ablative masculine/feminine singular of dīs
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of dītis