lemeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• IPA^(key): /liːm/
• 韻: -iːm

名詞

leme (複数形 lemes)

1. (obsolete) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →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 (三人称単数 現在形 lemes, 現在分詞 leming, 過去形および過去分詞形 lemed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shine.

アナグラム

• LEEM, mele