quarrelとは

意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• quarrell (廃れた用法)

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɒɹəl/
  • (米国発音) enPR: 'kwôrəl, 'kwŏrəl, IPA^(key): /ˈkwɔɹəl/, /ˈkwɑɹəl/
  • 韻: -ɒɹəl

語源 1

From Old French querele (modern French querelle), itself from Latin querella (“complaint”), from queror (“I lament, I complain”).

Replaced 古期英語 sacan by 1340 as “ground for complaint”.

名詞

quarrel (複数形 quarrels)

1. A verbal dispute or heated argument.

   We got into a silly quarrel about what food to order.

   • (Can we date this quote?), [unknown translator], François de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxim 496"

     Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

   • 2016, John O'Sullivan, Former Thatcher speechwriter discusses Brexit, [Video], C-SPAN at The Heritage Foundation, June 2016. At 4'27".

     All quarrels halt at the grave.

2. A ground of dispute or objection; a complaint.

   A few customers in the shop had some quarrels with us, so we called for the manager.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Mark 6:19:

     Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him.

   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, 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 3, scene 4]:

     You mistake, sir. I am sure no man hath any quarrel to me. -

3. (obsolete) earnest desire or longing.

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

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:dispute

関連する語

• querent

動詞

quarrel (third-person singular simple present quarrels, present participle (英国用法) quarrelling or (米国用法) quarreling, simple past and past participle (英国用法) quarrelled or (米国用法) quarreled) (intransitive)

1. (intransitive) To disagree.
2. (intransitive) To contend, argue fiercely, squabble.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir W. Temple かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Beasts called sociable quarrel in hunger and lust.

3. (intransitive) To find fault; to cavil.

   to quarrel with one's lot

   • (Can we date this quote by Roscommon かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     I will not quarrel with a slight mistake.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To argue or squabble with.
   • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     I had quarrelled my brother purposely.

派生語

• quarreler, quarreller
• quarrelsome

語源 2

From Middle English as "square-headed bolt for a crossbow" c.1225, borrowed from Old French quarel (modern French carreau), from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, the diminutive of Latin quadrus (“a square”). Related to quattuor (“four”).

名詞

quarrel (複数形 quarrels)

1. A diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window.
2. A square tile; quarry tile.
3. A bolt or arrow for a crossbow, traditionally with the head square in cross-section.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VII, ciii:

     Twanged the string, out flew the quarrel long,
     And through the subtle air did singing pass.

   • 1829, Edward Augustus Kendall, The Olio or Museum of Entertainment, Vol.III, p.174

     The small cross-bow, called the arbalet or arbalest, is said to have been invented by the Sicilians. It was carried by the foot-soldiers, and when used was charged with a quarrel or bar-bolt, that is, a small arrow with a flat head, one of which occasioned the death of Harold at the battle of Hastings, […].

   • 1836, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe‎^[1], Parker:

     Here be two arblasts, comrades, with windlaces and quarrels — to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain.

   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company‎^[2], B. Tauchnitz:

     "What was that?" he asked, as a hissing, sharp-drawn voice seemed to whisper in his ear. The steersman smiled, and pointed with his foot to where a short heavy cross-bow quarrel stuck quivering in the boards. At the same instant the man stumbled forward upon his knees, and lay lifeless upon the deck, a blood-stained feather jutting out from his back. As Alleyne stooped to raise him, the air seemed to be alive with the sharp zip-zip of the bolts, and he could hear them pattering on the deck...

4. A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps etc. make the form nearly square.
5. A four-sided cutting tool or chisel with a diamond-shaped end.

別の表記

• (arrow): carrel

参考

• quarl

Further reading

• crossbow bolt on Wikipedia.