festuとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Middle French festu, from Old French festu, from Late Latin *festūcum, from Latin festūca (“stalk, stem, straw”). First attested in c. 1370.

発音

• IPA: /fɛˈstiu̯/, /ˈfɛstiu̯/

名詞

festu (plural festus)

1. (biblical) A mote in the eye (in reference to Matthew 7:3)
2. (rare) A stalk or straw

派生した語

• English: fescue (obsolete festue)

参照

• “festū, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “fescue, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.