roostとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from 古期英語 hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan.

Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).

名詞

roost (複数形 roosts)

1. The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest または a branch).
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:

     He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.

2. A group of birds roosting together.
3. A bedroom
4. (Scotland) The inner roof of a cottage.

派生語

• rule the roost

動詞

roost (三人称単数 現在形 roosts, 現在分詞 roosting, 過去形および過去分詞形 roosted)

1. (intransitive, of birds または bats) To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest
2. (figuratively) to spend the night
   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The UPS package centre for central London, a brief walk from Kentish Town tube station, holds a below-ground bay in which 170 vans roost every night.

参考

• the chickens come home to roost

語源 2

From Old Norse róst.

名詞

roost (複数形 roosts)

1. (Shetland and Orkney) A tidal race.
   • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, Limited., published 1886, OCLC 1056292939:

     Sometimes the whole tract swung to one side, like the tail of a live serpent; sometimes, for a glimpse, it would all disappear and then boil up again. What it was I had no guess, which for the time increased my fear of it; but I now know it must have been the roost or tide race, which had carried me away so fast and tumbled me about so cruelly, and at last, as if tired of that play, had flung out me and the spare yard upon its landward margin.

動詞

roost (三人称単数 現在形 roosts, 現在分詞 roosting, 過去形および過去分詞形 roosted)

1. Alternative form of roust

アナグラム

• Sorto, Toors, ostro, roots, rotos, stoor, toros, torso