dremelsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From dremen (“to dream”) +‎ -els, perhaps after metels (“dream”). First attested in c. 1390.

発音

• IPA: /ˈdrɛ̝ːməls/, /ˈdrɛ̝ːm(ə)ləs/, /ˈdreː-/

名詞

dremels (uncountable)

1. (rare) A vision or dream.
   • c. 1390, [William Langland], “Incıpıt paſſus decimus”, in Peeres plouheman (P, C-text), Monmouthshire: Thom[as] Dankaſtre, published c. 1400, folio 36, verso; republished as MS. HM 137, San Marino, CA: Huntingdon Digital Library, p. 2011:

     Ac foꝛ þe bok bıble bereþ good wyttneſſe / How danıel dyuinede. and vndude þe dremeles / Of kyng nabugodonoſoꝛ þat no peer hadde

     But since that book, the Bible, gives good testimony [about] / how Daniel interpreted and explained the dreams / of King Nebuchadnezzar, who had no equal […]

使用する際の注意点

• This term is only found within Piers Plowman.

参照

• “drēmels, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.