sitheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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

名詞

sithe (複数形 sithes)

1. Obsolete form 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], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 7:

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

動詞

sithe (三人称単数 現在形 sithes, 現在分詞 sithing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sithed)

1. Obsolete form of scythe.

名詞

sithe (複数形 sithes)

1. Alternative spelling of sith

動詞

sithe (三人称単数 現在形 sithes, 現在分詞 sithing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sithed)

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

語源 3

Regional pronunciation of sigh.

動詞

sithe (三人称単数 現在形 sithes, 現在分詞 sithing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sithed)

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

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

名詞

sithe (複数形 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, Norton, Thomas; Sackville, Thomas, Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex‎^[1], 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

• Heist, Heits, Hites, Sethi, Thiès, heist, ithes, seith, shite