sistrenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 sustren, plural of suster influenced by Old Norse systirin, plural of systir; the 古期英語 plurals (of sweostor) were ġesweostor, ġesweostra, and ġesweostru. Analysable as sister +‎ -en (plural ending).

名詞

sistren

1. (archaic) plural of sister
   • 1570 March 13, Will of David Tyrry Fitz Edmonde‎:

     My wyfe to have my dwelling house during her widowhood, that is to say, the hall, the parlor, and the small seller: to my sistren Catheryn and Ellen Tyrry their grinding in my myll during their lives, paying noo toll nor multhe money.

   • 2003 April 16 (airdate). Angel (TV series), episode "The Magic Bullet"

     LORNE: Blessings and moon pies, brethren and sistren!

   • 2010 April 26, “The Calm Before the Storms”, in Neo-Neocom‎, retrieved 14 March 2012:

     I see many of the brethren and the sistren are in the same place I was the other night, when Tatyana commented on my gloom.

   • 2011 February 17, Dave Lerner, “I Am Incubator”, in Huffington Post‎, retrieved 14 March 2012:

     Among my brethren and sistren in incubation I count the folks working at places like idealab, betaworks, alleycorp, as well as certain current and former university venture lab specialists I hold in high esteem.

使用する際の注意点

• This form was lost in unmarked use by the sixteenth century. Since then, it has been most often used jocularly together with brethren, as in “brethren and sistren”.

名詞

sistren pl (plural only)

1. (figuratively) The (female) body of members, especially of a sorority or religious order.
   • 1997, Enrico Brizzi, Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band:

     […] teachers, parents, and above all his classmates the seething masses of dutiful zombies and sistren of the Evervirgin Sorority.

等位語

• brethren

名詞

sistren (plural sistrens)

1. (Rastafari) A close female friend, family member, or comrade.
   • 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 157:

     Come out of the dark and come into the light, sistren.

等位語

• bredrin

アナグラム

• Inserts, Stiners, Strines, estrins, inserts, sestrin, sinters, sistern