mournとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English mornen, mournen, from 古期英語 murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).

発音

• (General American) enPR: môrn, IPA^(key): /mɔɹn/; (まれに) enPR: mo͝orn, IPA^(key): /mʊɹn/
• (Received 発音) enPR: môn, IPA^(key): /mɔːn/; (まれに) enPR: mo͝orn, IPA^(key): /mʊən/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mōrn, IPA^(key): /mo(ː)ɹn/; (まれに) enPR: mo͝orn, IPA^(key): /mʊɹn/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /moən/; (まれに) enPR: mo͝orn, IPA^(key): /mʊən/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• 異形同音異義語: morne, mourne; morn (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

動詞

mourn (三人称単数 現在形 mourns, 現在分詞 mourning, 過去形および過去分詞形 mourned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 23:2:

     Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

     1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?

2. (transitive) To utter in a sorrowful manner.
3. (intransitive) To wear mourning.

派生語

名詞

mourn (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 mourns)

1. (now literary) Sorrow, grief.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vij, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:

     Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle

2. A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

参考

アナグラム

• Munro, munro