doveとは

語源 1

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from 古期英語 *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, be obscure”). Cognate with Scots doo, dow (“dove”), Saterland Frisian Duuwe (“dove”), West Frisian do (“dove”), Dutch duif (“dove, pigeon”), Low German (Low Saxon) Duuv (“dove, pigeon”), German Taube (“dove, pigeon”), Danish due (“dove”), Swedish duva (“dove”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove”), Gothic �������� (dubo).

発音

• IPA^(key): /dʌv/
• Rhymes: -ʌv

名詞

dove (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 doves)

1. A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon または a dove または both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
2. (politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).
3. Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
   • Cant. ii. 14

     O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.

4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.

同意語

• (pigeon): columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon

派生語

語源 2

A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.

別の表記

• dived

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: dōv, IPA^(key): /dəʊv/
• (米国用法) enPR: dōv, IPA^(key): /doʊv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

動詞

dove

1. (chiefly Canada, US and English dialectal) Strong simple past tense of dive
   • 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN

     When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.

2. (nonstandard) past participle of dive

使用する際の注意点

• See dive for dived vs. dove.

参照

• “dove” listed as a North American and English dialectal past tense form of “dive, v.”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]