doveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Inherited from 中期英語 douve, dove, duve, from 古期英語 *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”).

Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).

発音

• IPA: /dʌv/
• 韻: -ʌv
• ハイフネーション: dove

名詞

dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)

1. (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:columbid

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 77:

     Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations.

2. (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.

   Synonym: peace dove

   Antonym: hawk

3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 2:14:

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

4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
5. (slang, countable) Ellipsis of love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

派生語

派生した語

• → Norwegian Bokmål: due (semantic loan)

語源 2

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dōv, IPA: /dəʊv/
• (米国発音) enPR: dōv, IPA: /doʊv/
• 韻: -əʊv

動詞

dove

1. (chiefly Canada, US; dialectal in the UK) simple past 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 usage notes at dive.

参照

• “dove”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

アナグラム

• devo