sitheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From the Anglo-Saxon siġþe meaning scythe. The spelling with was influenced by unrelated Latin word scissor ( “ cutter ” ), and scindere ( “ to split ” ).

名詞

sithe (plural sithes)

1. Obsolete spelling of scythe.
   • 1669, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Samuel Simmons, Book X:

     […] and, whatever thing the sithe of time mows down, devour unspared.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 7:

     Jupiter with his eagle, Juno with her peacock, Time with his sithe, had much outgrown their original proportions;...

   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 179:

     Old Klas used often to shake his head at him and say, "John! John! what are you about? The spade and sithe will be your sceptre and crown, and your bride will wear a garland of rosemary and a gown of striped drill."

動詞

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. Obsolete spelling of scythe.

派生語

参照

• “sithe”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.

語源 2

名詞

sithe (plural sithes)

1. Alternative spelling of sith.

動詞

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. (obsolete) To journey, travel, wayfare.

語源 3

Regional pronunciation of sigh.

動詞

sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)

1. (dialect, dated) To sigh.
   • c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankindː

     I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance

派生語

名詞

sithe (plural sithes)

1. (obsolete) A sigh.

参照

• “sī̆then, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 4

Clipping of sithen.

接続詞

sithe

1. Alternative spelling of sith (“since”).
   • 1561, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex‎, Smith, Lucy Toulmin, editor, Heilbronn, published 1883, act 1, scene 2, page 13:

     Wherefore (O kyng) I speake as one for all, / Sithe all as one do beare you egall faith:

アナグラム

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