lemeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 leem, leme, leam, from 古期英語 lēoma (“light, brightness”); akin to light.

発音

• IPA: /liːm/
• 韻: -iːm

名詞

leme (plural lemes)

1. (obsolete) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:

     Thereby the incomprehensible majestie of God, as it were by a bright leme of a torch or candle, is declared to the blinde inhabitants of this world.

動詞

leme (third-person singular simple present lemes, present participle leming, simple past and past participle lemed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shine.

参照

• “leme”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Emel, mele, Elem, elem., elem, LEEM

別の表記

• leem, lem, leom, lewme, lume, lym, lyme
• leame, leome, lome (Early Middle English)

発音

• IPA: /ˈleːm(ə)/, /ˈlɛːm(ə)/

名詞

leme (plural lemes)

1. Fire or an instance of it; a blaze.
2. Light, brightness, or an instance of it:
   1. A gleam; a short burst of light.
   2. A ray or column of light.
      • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Nonnes Preest”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

        Firis with red lemes.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (figuratively) Wisdom, revelation, or one who grants it.

派生した語

• English: leam
• Scots: leim, leme

参照

• “lẹ̄m(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

名詞

leme

1. alternative form of lyme