quemeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

queme (third-person singular simple present quemes, present participle queming, simple past and past participle quemed)

1. (obsolete) To please, to satisfy.
   • 1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets:

     Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.

   • 1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset:

     On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.

   • 1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:

     Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);

別の表記

• queeme, quem, qwem, qweme, wheme
• cweme (Early Middle English)

発音

• IPA: /ˈkweːm(ə)/

形容詞

queme (plural and weak singular quemere, comparative quemest) (Early Middle English or Northern and Northwest Midland)

1. satisfying, satisfactory, agreeable:
   1. suitable, appropriate
   2. generous, kind, friendly
   3. attractive, beautiful, pleasant-looking
2. (rare) deft, capable, skilled

関連する語

• quemen

派生した語

• English: wheem (dialectal)
• Middle Scots: queme
  • Scots: queem, quim

参照

• “quẹ̄m(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

名詞

queme (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Northern and Northwest Midland) satisfaction, liking, agreeability

派生した語

• >? English: quim

参照

• “quẹ̄m(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

動詞

queme

1. alternative form of quemen