graveとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English grave, grafe, from 古期英語 græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.

名詞

A freshly dug grave

grave (複数形 graves)

1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
   • (Can we date this quote?), John 11:17:

     He had lain in the grave four days.

   • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert (author), Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter X:

     They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.

2. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
3. (by extension) Death, destruction.
   • a. 1769, unknown, The Cuckoo‎^[1], lines 9-12:

     […] Meeting is pleasure, parting is a grief; / An inconstant lover is worse than a thief; / A thief can but rob you, and take all you have, / An inconstant lover will bring you to the grave! […]

派生語

関連する語

• groove

参考

• grave (burial) on Wikipedia.

語源 2

From Middle English graven, from 古期英語 grafan (“to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven (“to dig”), German graben (“to dig”), Danish grave (“to dig”), Swedish gräva (“to dig”), Icelandic grafa (“to dig”).

動詞

grave (三人称単数 現在形 graves, 現在分詞 graving, 過去形 graved または grove, 過去分詞 graved または graven)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Book of Prayer, Psalms 7:16:

     He hath graven and digged up a pit.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
   • Exodus 28:9:

     Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.

   • 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram‎^[2], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:

     Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks.

   • a. 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Requiem"

     This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"

3. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.

   to grave an image

   • (Can we date this quote by Geoffrey Chaucer かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?):

     With gold men may the hearte grave.

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
   • (Can we date this quote by Matthew Prior かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?):

     O! may they graven in thy heart remain.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, Scene ii^[3]:

     […] And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

関連する語

• begrave
• engrave

語源 3

From Middle French grave, a learned borrowing from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Compare Old French greve (“terrible, dreadful”). Doublet of grief.

形容詞

grave (comparative graver, superlative gravest)

1. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: sober, solemn, sombre, sedate, serious, staid

2. Low in pitch, tone etc. [from 17th c.]

   Antonym: acute

   • 1854, John Weeks Moore, Encyclopedia of Music:

     The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.

3. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable. [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: serious, momentous, important

   • 2016 February 6, James Zogby, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National‎^[4]:

     Israel’s behaviour is doing grave damage to the Palestinian people and to any hope for peace.

4. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 7:

     An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.

同意語

• weightsome, sweer

• (unsorted by sense): sage, demure, thoughtful, weighty

名詞

grave (複数形 graves)

1. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).

語源 4

(This etymology is missing または incomplete. Please add to it, または discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to Dutch graaf, German Graf”)

名詞

grave (複数形 graves)

1. (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.

関連する語

• burgrave
• landgrave
• margrave
• palsgrave
• waldgrave

語源 5

grave (三人称単数 現在形 graves, 現在分詞 graving, 過去形および過去分詞形 graved)

1. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

関連する語

• graving dock

アナグラム

• Gaver

Latin

形容詞

grave

1. nominative neuter singular of gravis
2. accusative neuter singular of gravis
3. vocative neuter singular of gravis

参照

• grave in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• grave in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[5]

接尾辞

-grave

1. Signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave, burgrave.