stervenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 古期英語 steorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *sterban, from Proto-Germanic *sterbaną.

発音

• IPA: /ˈstɛrvən/
• 韻: -ɛrvən

動詞

sterven

1. To die or perish.
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Marchantes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 138, verso:

     ffoꝛ wele oꝛ wo / she wol hẏm nat foꝛſake / She nẏs nat werẏ / hẏm to loue / and serue / Thogh þ he lẏ bedrede / tıl he ſterue

     […] through joy and sorrow, she won't abandon him; / she doesn't get tired / of loving and looking after him / Even though he'll lie bedridden until he dies.

2. To perish from cold or hunger; to starve.

Conjugation

派生した語

• English: starve, sterve
• Scots: sterve

参照

• “sterven” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.