kissとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: kĭs, IPA^(key): /kɪs/, [kʰɪs]
• 韻: -ɪs

語源 1

From Middle English kissen, kussen, from 古期英語 cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną (“to kiss”), cognates include Danish kysse, Dutch kussen, German küssen, Icelandic kyssa, Norwegian kysse and Swedish kyssa. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ku, *kus (probably imitative), with cognates including Ancient Greek κύσσω (kússō), poetic form of κύσω (kúsō, “to kiss”), and Hittite [script needed] (kuwassanzi, “they kiss”).

動詞

kiss (三人称単数 現在形 kisses, 現在分詞 kissing, 過去形および過去分詞形 kissed)

1. (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, 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 III, scene ii]:

     He […] kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.

   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 2

     I'll kiss thy foot. I'll swear myself thy subject.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.

   The nearside of the car just kissed a parked truck as he took the corner at high speed. 

   His ball kissed the black into the corner pocket.

   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vi]:

     Like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume.

   • 1870, Alfred Tennyson, The Window

     Rose, rose and clematis, / Trail and twine and clasp and kiss.

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     Night hath fled away into the valleys. The dawn kisseth the mountain tops.

3. (intransitive) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
4. (transitive, archaic) To treat with fondness.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:kiss

派生語

• bekiss
• kissing
• kissle
• kissy

語源 2

From Middle English kis, kys, kus, forms of cos influenced by kissen, from 古期英語 coss, from Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

名詞

kiss (複数形 kisses)

1. A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
2. An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message.
3. A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See Hershey's Kisses.
4. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth, conjunction.

同意語

• (touch with the lips): See Thesaurus:buss

派生語

派生語

• KISS principle

アナグラム

• skis