quiverとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to 古期英語 cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kukur (“container”), said to be from Hunnic,^[1] possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern English cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.

名詞

quiver (複数形 quivers)

1. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 271:

     Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.

   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:

     Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.

2. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.

   He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.

3. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
4. (mathematics) A multidigraph.

派生語

• quiverful

語源 2

From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from 古期英語 *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).

形容詞

quiver (comparative more quiver, superlative most quiver)

1. (archaic) Nimble, active.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281:

     [...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.

語源 3

From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.

動詞

quiver (三人称単数 現在形 quivers, 現在分詞 quivering, 過去形および過去分詞形 quivered)

1. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion

   Synonyms: tremble, quake, shudder, shiver

   • c. 1588–1593, [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, OCLC 222241046, [Act II, scene iii]:

     The birds chaunt melodie on euerie buſh, / The ſnakes^{[sic, meaning ſnake]} lies rolled in the chearefull ſunne, / The greene leaues quiuer with the cooling winde, / And make a checkerd ſhadow on the ground: [...]

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 4, scene 2]:

     And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 84, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 410:

     Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.

   • 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter VIII, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, OCLC 731506428, part III, page 300:

     And the moonlight on the Church seemed to shift and quiver—some pigeons perhaps had been disturbed up there.

派生語

• aquiver
• quivering
• quiversome

参照

Further reading

• quiver on Wikipedia.