reinとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English rein, reyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reyne and Old French resne (Modern French rêne), from Vulgar Latin *retina, from Classical Latin retineō (“to retain”), from re- + teneō.

Displaced native 古期英語 ġewealdleþer (字義どおりに “control leather”).

名詞

rein (複数形 reins)

1. A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
2. (figuratively) An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Let their eyes rove without rein.

派生語

• free rein
• keep a tight rein on
• take the reins

動詞

rein (三人称単数 現在形 reins, 現在分詞 reining, 過去形および過去分詞形 reined)

1. (transitive) To direct or stop a horse by using reins.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:

     He mounts and reins his horse.

2. (transitive) To restrain; to control; to check.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Being once chafed, he cannot / Be reined again to temperance.

3. (intransitive) To obey directions given with the reins.
   • 2011, Marie Claire Peck, Rocking Horse Ranch (page 40)

     She worked each horse at a walk, trot, and then a canter. The horses reined well and executed stops quickly.

派生語

• rein in

派生語

語源 2

From Anglo-Norman reines, Middle French reins, and their source, Latin rēnēs.

名詞

rein (複数形 reins)

1. (now rare, archaic, chiefly in 複数形) A kidney.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     a man subject to these like imaginations […] hath often the stone imaginarily, before he have it in his reines […].

   • 1611, King James Bible, Lamentations 3:13:

     He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

2. The inward impulses; the affections and passions, formerly supposed to be located in the area of the kidneys.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Proverbs 23:16:

     My reins rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Revelation 2:23:

     I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.

アナグラム

• Erin, N.Ire., Rine, in re, rine