spireとは

語源 1

From Middle English spire, spyre, spier, spir, from 古期英語 spīr, from Proto-Germanic *spīrō, *spīrǭ (“peak; point; tip; stalk”). Cognate with Dutch spier, German Low German Spier, German Spier, Spiere, Danish spir, Norwegian spir and spire, Swedish spira, Icelandic spíra.

名詞

spire (複数形 spires)

1. (now まれに) The stalk or stem of a plant. [from 10th c.]
2. A young shoot of a plant; a spear. [from 14th c.]
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 12

     Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire, and was breaking it to get the seeds.

3. Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
4. A sharp or tapering point. [from 16th c.]
   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict‎^[1]:

     A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.

5. A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof. [from 16th c.]

   The spire of the church rose high above the town.

6. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. [from 17th c.]
   • Shakespeare

     the spire and top of praises

7. (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

動詞

spire (三人称単数 現在形 spires, 現在分詞 spiring, 過去形および過去分詞形 spired)

1. (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:

     In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre, / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.

   • Mortimer

     It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms.

2. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. [from 14th c.]
3. (transitive) To furnish with a spire.

語源 2

From Old French spirer, and its source, Latin spīrō (“to breathe”).

動詞

spire (三人称単数 現在形 spires, 現在分詞 spiring, 過去形および過去分詞形 spired)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe. [14th-16th c.]

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語源 3

From Middle French spire.

名詞

spire (複数形 spires)

1. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. [from 16th c.]
2. A spiral. [from 17th c.]

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3. (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

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