scentとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From c.1400, borrowed from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sentīre, present active infinitive of sentiō. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.

発音

• enPR: sĕnt, IPA^(key): /sɛnt/
• 韻: -ɛnt
• 異形同音異義語: cent, sent

名詞

scent (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 scents)

1. A distinctive odour or smell.

   the scent of flowers

   the scent of a skunk

2. An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.

   The dogs lost the scent.

3. The sense of smell.

   I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.

4. A perfume.
5. (figurative) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
6. (obsolete) Sense, perception.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     A fit false dream, that can delude the sleeper's sent.

使用する際の注意点

• Almost always applied to agreeable odors (fragrances).

同意語

派生語

• scented
• scentless

動詞

scent (三人称単数 現在形 scents, 現在分詞 scenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 scented)

1. (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.

   The hounds scented the fox in the woods.

   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene v]:

     Methinks I scent the morning air.

2. (transitive, figurative) To have a suspicion of.

   I scented trouble when I saw them running down the hill towards me.

3. (transitive) To impart an odour to.

   Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.

   • a. 1701, John Dryden, “The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus. From the 18th Idyllium of Theocritus.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, OCLC 863244003, page 412:

     Balm, from a ſilver-box diſtill'd around, / Shall all bedew the roots, and ſcent the ſacred ground.

4. (intransitive, archaic) To have a smell.
   • 1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie (originally by Pliny the Elder)

     Thunderbolts […] do sent strongly of brimstone.

5. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.