lienとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːn/, /ˈliːən/
• Rhymes: -iːn, -iːən
• Homophone: lean (IPA^(key): /liːn/)

名詞

lien (複数形 liens)

1. (obsolete) A tendon.
2. (law) A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.
   • 1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:

     […] every youth movement presents itself as loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 7:

     Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.

派生語

• lienholder
• liensman

別の表記

• lyen

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪən/
• Rhymes: -aɪən

動詞

lien

1. (biblical, archaic) Alternative form of lain
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 26:10:

     And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done vnto vs? one of the people might lightly haue lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest haue brought guiltinesse vpon vs.”

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 5:19:

     And the Priest shall charge her by an othe, and say vnto the woman, If no man haue lyen with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to vncleannesse with another in stead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse.

語源 3

Borrowed from Latin lien (“spleen”). Doublet of spleen.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪ.in/, /ˈlaɪ.ən/
• Rhymes: -aɪin, -aɪən

名詞

lien (複数形 lienes)

2. (uncommon, possibly obsolete) The spleen.

   Synonym: milt

   • 1892, John Marie Keating, Henry Hamilton, John Chalmers Da Costa, A New Pronouncing Dictionary of Medicine:

     Li'enal. Pertaining to the lien or spleen; splenic.

   • 1914, Quain's Elements of Anatomy, volume 1, page 312:

     The lien or spleen (figs. 282 to 285) is a soft, highly vascular contractile and very elastic organ of a dark purplish colour. It is placed obliquely behind the stomach, [...]

関連する語

• lienal, lienic

Further reading

• lien on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• LEIN, LINE, Line, Neil, Niel, Nile, line

Latin

別の表記

• liēnis m

語源

From Proto-Italic *liɣēn-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)liǵʰ-, from *splǵʰ-ēn- (“spleen”). The -i- remains unexplained.

Cognate with Old Irish selg, Lithuanian blužnis, Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn), Old Armenian փայծաղն (pʿaycałn), Avestan ����������������-‎ (spər^əzan-), Sanskrit प्लीहन् (plīhán). Doublet of splen.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.eːn/, [ˈlʲieːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.en/, [ˈliːen]

名詞

liēn m (genitive liēnis); third declension

1. spleen

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

参照

• “lien”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lien in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette