mistとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English mist, from 古期英語 mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).

名詞

mist (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 mists)

1. (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
   • Synonym: brume

   It was difficult to see through the morning mist.

2. (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.

   There was an oily mist on the lens.

3. (figuratively) Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:

     His passion cast a mist before his sense.

Hyponyms

• camanchaca
• Scotch mist

派生語

動詞

mist (三人称単数 現在形 mists, 現在分詞 misting, 過去形および過去分詞形 misted)

1. To form mist.

   It's misting this morning.

2. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.

   I mist my tropical plants every morning.

3. To cover with a mist.

   The lens was misted.

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     her breath will mist or staine the stone

4. (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.

   My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

5. (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.

派生語

動詞

mist

1. (obsolete) past tense of miss
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv]:

     you shall be mist at Court

アナグラム

• ISTM, ITSM, Smit, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, smit, stim

語源

From Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

発音

• IPA^(key): /mist/

名詞

mist m

1. fog
2. mist

語形変化