potterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (British) IPA: /ˈpɒtə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɑtɚ/
• 韻: -ɒtə(ɹ)

語源 1

From 中期英語 pottere, from 古期英語 pottere (“potter”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *pottārī (“pot-maker”), equivalent to pot +‎ -er. Influenced by Anglo-Norman poter, Old French potier (“potter”). Cognate with Dutch potter (“potter”), German Low German Pötter, Pütter (“potter”). Displaced 古期英語 synonyms lāmwyrhta (“a worker in clay, potter”, literally “loam-worker”), tiġelwyrhta (“brickmaker, potter”, literally “tile-worker”), crocwyrhta (“crocker, potter”, literally “crock-worker”).

名詞

potter (plural potters)

1. One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
   • 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 453:

     shoemakers, weavers, potters, bronzeworkers who produced and purveyed the articles necessary for daily life.

2. One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
3. One who pots meats or other eatables.
4. One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
   • 1829, Thomas De Quincey, “Professor Wilson”, in Edinburgh Literary Gazette:

     the convivial society of gipsies, tinkers, potters, strolling players, &c.

5. The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
6. The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.

同意語

• (Pseudemys rubriventris): northern red-bellied cooter
• (maker of ceramics): ceramicist

派生語

参照

• (Biblical) Bratcher, Dennis Bratcher (2006), The Potter, The Voice CRI/Voice Institute[1]

Further reading

• potter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

Frequentative of pote, equivalent to pote +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch poteren, peuteren (“to poke, pry, search”).

別の表記

• putter, pouter, pudder, pother

動詞

potter (third-person singular simple present potters, present participle pottering, simple past and past participle pottered)

1. (British) To act in a vague or unmotivated way; to fuss about with unimportant things.
2. (British) To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around.)
   • 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter II, in Leave It to Psmith:

     He’s so dreamy and absent-minded. He potters about the garden all the time.

3. (obsolete) To poke repeatedly.

派生語

• potter about
• potter around