hasteとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte),^[1] from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”),^[2] from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), 古期英語 hǣst (“violence”), 古期英語 hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adj), Old Norse heift/heipt (“feud”), Gothic �������������� (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German and Danish heftig (“vehement”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /heɪst/
• 韻: -eɪst

名詞

haste (uncountable)

1. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

   We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Samuel 12:8:

     The king's business required haste.

2. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 116:11:

     I said in my haste, All men are liars.

派生語

動詞

haste (三人称単数 現在形 hastes, 現在分詞 hasting, 過去形および過去分詞形 hasted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], page 168:

     Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
   • 1594, “The Wounds of Civill War”, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition)‎^[1]:

     The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.

   • 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes‎^[2]:

     He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.

   • 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present‎^[3]:

     Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.

同意語

• (move with haste): hurry, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry

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アナグラム

• ashet, haets, hates, heast, heats, hetas, sateh, sheat