manacenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Old French menacier, from Vulgar Latin *mināciō, mināciāre; equivalent to manace +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). First attested in c. 1350.

For Northern 中期英語 manance, manaunce, see the discussion at manace.

発音

• IPA: /maˈnaːsən/, /ˈmanasən/

動詞

manacen

1. To make threats against (someone); to intimidate or threaten.
   • c. 1370, [William Langland], “[Passus 7]”, in Piers Plowman (La, A-text), Shropshire, published c. 1400, folio 123, recto; republished as Hale 150, London: Lincoln’s Inn Rare Books and Manuscripts Online, 4 April 2023:

     I was not wont to woꝛche ꝗd waſtour now I wol not bẏgẏn / And let lightlich of hıs loꝛe ⁊ eke of him seoluen / And acounteth Piers at a peoſe ⁊ his plogh after / And manaſſed him ⁊ eke hıs men when þeẏ next mette

     "I wasn't used to working", said Waster, "and now I won't start." / And [he] takes his learning lightly and him the same way, views Piers like a pea and his plough as worse, and threatened him alongside his men [for] when they next met.

2. To threaten (to do) something.
3. To endanger or imperil (someone or something).
4. (rare) To compel someone (into doing something).

Conjugation

派生した語

• English: menace
• Middle Scots: mannais, minase, mynace; mannans

参照

• “manā̆cen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “menace, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “man(n)ance, -ans, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.