quiverとは

発音

• (米国発音, Canada) enPR: kwĭˈvər, IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪvəɹ/
  • (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪvə/
  • 韻: -ɪvə(ɹ)

語源 1

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (compare Dutch koker), possibly ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern English cocker.

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.

語源 2

From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from 古期英語 *cwifer

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; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene III, line 12:

     The birds chaunt melody on every bush, / The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, / The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind / And make a checker'd shadow on the ground.

   • Addison

     And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.