synneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• cynne, sin, sine, sinne, sunne, syn, synn
• senne, zen, zenne (Kent)
• seonne (Early Middle English)

発音

• (most dialects) IPA: /ˈsin(ə)/
• (West Midland) IPA: /ˈsyn(ə)/, (SW Midlands) /ˈzyn(ə)/
• (Southern) IPA: /ˈzyn(ə)/, /ˈzin(ə)/
• (Eastern) IPA: (Kentish) /ˈzɛn(ə)/, (East Anglian) /ˈsɛn(ə)/

名詞

synne (plural synnes or (rare) synnen)

1. Iniquity, sinfulness; immoral behaviour.
2. A sin; a religiously immoral action:
   • c. 1370, [William Langland], “[Passus 1]”, in Petrus plowmon (V, A-text), Worcestershire, published c. 1390, folio 395, recto; republished as Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:

     ¶ Þēne knelede I. on my kneos. and cͥȝed hire of grace. / And pꝛeiede hire pitouſlẏ. to pꝛeye foꝛ vr sūnes. / And eke to teche me kuyndely. on criſt to bi leeue

     Then I kneeled on my knees and begged her for grace, / then prayed to her pitifully, to pray for our sins / and also to teach me to believe in Christ correctly […]

   1. (specifically) Lewdness, promiscuity.
   2. A certain (specified) kind or class of sin.
3. (more generally) A wrong; e.g. a mistake or crime.

関連する語

• synful
• synneles
• synnen
• synnere

派生した語

• English: sin
• Scots: sin

参照

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

語源 2

名詞

synne

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

語源 3

動詞

synne

1. alternative form of synnen (“to sin”)