marryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English marien, from Anglo-Norman marïer, from Latin marītāre (“to wed”), from marītus (“husband, suitor”), from mās (“man, male”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “suitor, young man”). Compare its feminine derivatives: Welsh morwyn (“girl”), merch (“daughter”), Crimean Gothic marzus (“wedding”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “boy; girl”), Lithuanian martì (“bride”), Avestan ��������������‎ (maⁱriia, “yeoman”).^[1]) Displaced native 古期英語 hīwian.

動詞

marry (三人称単数 現在形 marries, 現在分詞 marrying, 過去形および過去分詞形 married)

1. (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: get married, wed; see also Thesaurus:marry

   Antonym: divorce

   Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.

   • 1641, Evelyn, Diary, quoted in 1869 by Edward J. Wood in The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries, volume 2, page 241:

     Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] "

   • 1755, The Holy Bible, both Old and New Testament, Digested, Illustrated, and Explained, second edition, page 59:

     But Esau, being now forty years of age, took a false step by marrying not only without his parents consent; but with two wives, daughters of the Hittites.

   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     If and when Suzy does marry, it will be an open marriage because she's a believer in the "totality" of freedom.

   • 1975 July, Janis Ian (lyrics かつ music), “At Seventeen”:

     the rich relationed hometown queen marries into what she needs

2. (intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another.

   Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.

3. (transitive) To take as husband or wife. [from 15th c.]

   In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.

4. (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. [from 14th c.]
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Matthew ]:

     The kyngdome of heven is lyke unto a certayne kinge, which maryed his sonne [...].

   He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.

5. (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. [from 16th c.]

   A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.

   His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.

   • [1715], [John] Gay, The What D’Ye Call It: A Tragi-comi-pastoral Farce, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 723168462, Act II, scene ix, pages 38–39:

     What ſhall the Curate controul me? Have I not the Preſentation? Tell him that I will not have my Play ſpoil'd; nay, that he ſhall marry the Couple himſelf—I ſay he ſhall.

   • 1784, The House that Jack Built, page 8:

     This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]

6. (intransitive, figuratively, of inanimate または abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up.

   There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly.

   I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket.

   • 1959 September, “The Re-appraisal of the B.R. Modernisation Plan”, in Trains Illustrated, page 408:

     However, it now seems likely that means can be found to marry the W.R. and B.R. standard A.T.C. apparatus.

7. (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union. [from 15th c.]

   The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Jeremiah 3:14:

     Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.

   • 2006, Lisa C. Hickman, William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers

     For Faulkner, these years marry professional triumphs and personal disappointments: the Nobel Prize for Literature and an increasingly unlifting depression.

8. (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
9. (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.

派生語

関連する語

• marriage

語源 2

From Middle English Marie,^[2] referring to Mary, the Virgin Mary.^[3] Mid-14th century.

間投詞

marry

1. (obsolete) A term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth!
   • 1549 April 29 (Gregorian calendar)​, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer]; Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Seuenth Sermon of Maister Hugh Latymer, which He Preached before King Edward [VI], the .19. Day of Aprill.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, OCLC 12219849, folio 93, recto:

     You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes?

   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, OCLC 724111485, [Act II, scene i], page 24:

     I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.

     I know, [she talks] too much: / I always find that when I have the desire to sleep. / Indeed, before your Ladyship I admit / She keeps a little quiet, / And scolds me with her thoughts.

参考

• wed

参照

Further reading

• Marriage on Wikipedia.