mereとは

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語源 1

From Middle English mere, from 古期英語 mere (“the sea; mere, lake”), from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognate with West Frisian mar, Dutch meer, Low German meer, Meer, German Meer, Norwegian mar (only used in combinations, such as marbakke). Related to Latin mare, Breton mor, Russian мо́ре (móre).

別の表記

• meer, meere, mear

名詞

mere (複数形 meres)

1. (dialectal or literary) A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere.
   • 1753, Michael Drayton, The Works Of Michael Drayton, esq volume 3, p. 1156:

     When making for the brook the falconer doth espy / One river plash or mere where store of fowl doth lie […]

   • 1774, Goldsmith

     The meres of Shropshire and Chesbire.

   • 1823, Sir Walter Scott

     As a tempest influences the sluggish waters of the deadest mere.

   • 1888, Annie S. Swan

     She loved.. to watch the lovely shadows in the silent depths of the placid mere.

   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 194:

     Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English mere, from 古期英語 mǣre, ġemǣre (“boundary; limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mairiją (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”).

別の表記

• meer, meere, mear, meare

名詞

mere (複数形 meres)

1. Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.

派生語

• Hertsmere

動詞

mere (三人称単数 現在形 meres, 現在分詞 mering, 過去形および過去分詞形 mered)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To set divisions and bounds.
3. (cartography) To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
   • 2016 April 1, David EM Andrews, “Merely a question of boundaries.”, in Sheetlines‎^[1], The Charles Close Society, ISSN 0962-8207:

     What chance is there of revising this example of case law to include an exception to the generally cited rule when an administrative boundary has been mered in the past to coincide with a private property boundary?

関連する語

• mereing

語源 3

From Middle English mere, from 古期英語 mǣre (“famous, great, excellent, sublime, splendid, pure, sterling”), from Proto-Germanic *mērijaz, *mēraz (“excellent, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *mēros (“large, handsome”). Cognate with Middle High German mære (“famous”), Icelandic mærr (“famous”), and German Mär, Märchen ("fairy tale").

別の表記

• meere, mare

形容詞

mere (comparative more mere, superlative most mere)

1. (obsolete) Famous.

語源 4

From Anglo-Norman meer, from Old French mier, from Latin merus. Perhaps influenced by 古期英語 mǣre (“famous, great, excellent, sublime, splendid, pure, sterling”), or conflated with Etymology 3.

形容詞

mere (comparative merer, superlative merest)

1. (obsolete) Pure, unalloyed [8^th-17^thc.].
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.8:

     So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion […].

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 56, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Meere [transl. pure] ignorance, and wholy relying on others, was verily more profitable and wiser, than is this verball, and vaine knowledge […].

2. (obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright [15^th-18^thc.].

   I saved a mere 10 pounds this week.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 7:

     If every man might have what he would […] we should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion.

3. Just, only; no more than [from 16^thc.], pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0016:

     Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

   • 2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:

     Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

   • 2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:

     Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

   • 2019, Con Man Games; SmashGames, quoting Margaret, Kindergarten 2, SmashGames:

     Ah...my sister wishes to see you. A mere child. She never wants to have lunch with her dear sister, but I guess that's not your problem.

派生語

• merely

語源 5

Borrowed from Maori mere (“more”).

名詞

mere (複数形 meres)

1. A Maori war-club.
   • 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford 2000, p. 41:

     As Owen prepared to dismiss the matter, Rule produced something that really caught the great man's eye – a greenstone mere, the warclub of the Maori.

アナグラム

• Emer., REME, erme, meer, reem

Latin

動詞

merē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mereō

参照

• mere in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

語源

From Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”). Cognate with Old Frisian mere (West Frisian mar), Old Saxon meri (Low German Meer, meer), Dutch meer, Old High German meri (German Meer), Old Norse marr (Swedish mar). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin mare, Old Irish muir (Breton mor), Old Church Slavonic море (more) (Russian мо́ре (móre)), Lithuanian mãre.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.re/

名詞

mere m

1. sea, ocean
2. lake, body of water

語形変化

派生語

• mereswīn

派生した語

• Middle English: mere
  • English: mere
  • Scots: mere

語源

From Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”).

接尾辞

-mere

1. Forming nouns with the sense of part, segment

派生語

• enantiomere

アナグラム

• Emer., REME, erme, meer, reem

接頭辞

mere-

1. of or relating to the sea, sea-, marine-

   mereþyssa "ship"

   merestrēam "sea-water"

   meremenin, meremennen "mermaid, siren"

   merenǣdre "sea-snake, lamprey"

   meregrota "pearl"

   merelīþend "sailor, seafarer"

   mereswīn "porpoise, dolphin"