le Pとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

lep (plural leps)

1. (rare, sciences) A butterfly or moth.
   • 2006, Lori A. Spencer, Don R. Simons, Arkansas Butterflies and Moths, page 3:

     Butterflies and moths belong to the insect order Lepidoptera (“leps” for short), which means “scale-wing.”

アナグラム

• 'elp, -ple, EPL, LPE, pel

語源

From 古期英語 leap; see further there.

名詞

lep (plural lepes)

1. A basket; a bucket.
   • c. 1500, “Suspencio Iude [The Hanging of Judas]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 395, lines 55–60:

     My ded to se then myght be noght; / A lytyll lep he gart be wroght, / & ther I was in bed [i-]brought / & bondon faste; / To the salt se then thay soght, / & In me Caste.

     So as not to see my death, he bade a basket be made, and I was brought there from my bed, and bound fast. They went to the salt sea, and cast me in.

派生した語

• English: leap