teaとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Circa 1650, from Dutch thee, from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Introduced to English and other Western European languages by the Dutch East India Company, who sourced their tea in Amoy; compare Malay teh along the same trade route. Doublet of chai and cha (かつ, distantly, lahpet), from same Proto-Sino-Tibetan root; see discussion of cognates.

発音

• (General American) enPR: tē, IPA^(key): /ti/, [tʰi]
• (Received 発音) enPR: tē, IPA^(key): /tiː/, [tʰiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tee, ti

名詞

tea (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 teas)

1. (uncountable) The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); (countable) a variety of this plant.

   Darjeeling tea is grown in India.

2. (uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; (countable) a variety of such leaves.

   Go to the supermarket and buy some Darjeeling tea.

   Not for all the tea in China.

3. (uncountable) The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.

   Would you like some tea?

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[1]:

     Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.

4. (uncountable) Any similar drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.

   camomile tea; mint tea

5. (uncountable) Meat stock served as a hot drink.

   beef tea

6. (countable, 通例 of Nations, northern US) A cup or (East Asia, Southern US) glass of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, and/or tapioca pearls.
7. (uncountable, Britain) A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 23:

     Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast. In [public schools] where alcohol, tobacco and drugs were forbidden, it was essential that something should take their place as a powerful and public totem of virility and cool. Toast, for reasons lost in time, was the substance chosen.

8. (uncountable, 通例 of Nations) Synonym of supper, the main evening meal, whether or not it includes tea.

   The family were sitting round the table, eating their tea.

9. (cricket) The break in play between the second and third sessions.

   Australia were 490 for 7 at tea on the second day.

   • 2009, Guardian Media Group, in The Guardian, “What do cricketers eat at tea? When is it safe to flush on the train? What's a plujit?”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name)‎^[2]:

     As recently as the mid-80s the players would be given a bottle of beer at lunchtime at some county grounds, and "tea" still meant a cup of tea into the 90s.

10. (slang, dated) Synonym of marijuana.
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, page 103:

      So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea, a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana […] .

    • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & al., Really the Blues, Payback Press, 1999, page 74:

      Tea puts a musician in a real masterly sphere, and that's why so many jazzmen have used it.

    • 1947 March 11, William Burroughs, letter:

      Here in Texas possession of tea is a felony calling for 2 years.

11. (slang, especially gay slang and African American Vernacular) Information, especially gossip.
    • 2015, Sonya Shuman, Doors of the Church Are Open: Smoke & Mirrors by Sonya Shuman:

      "What's the tea on you and China? Where she at Alicia? You should know where ya baby at."

    Spill the tea on that drama, hon.

使用する際の注意点

In most places tea is assumed to mean hot tea, while in the southern United States, it is assumed to mean iced tea.

同意語

• (plant): tea plant, tea tree, tea bush
• (leaves): tea leaves
• (beverage): see Thesaurus:tea
• (beverages similar to tea): herb tea, herbal tea, infusion, tisane
• (a light meal): see afternoon tea & Thesaurus:meal

下位語

• (beverage): see Thesaurus:tea

派生語

派生した語

• Gullah: tea
• Jamaican Creole: tea
• → Abenaki: ti
• → Chickasaw: tii'
• → Cocopa: ṭi·
• → Cornish: té
• → Cree:

  Canadian syllabics: ᑎᕀ (tiy)

  Latin: tiy

• → Irish: tae
• → Maori: tī
• → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti
• → Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q, ji'gitlo'q (“kettle”) (from "tea kettle")
• → Panamint: tii
• → Unami: ti
• → Welsh: te

動詞

tea (三人称単数 現在形 teas, 現在分詞 teaing, 過去形および過去分詞形 teaed)

1. To drink tea.
2. To take afternoon tea (the light meal).
   • 1877, The Bicycling Times and Tourist's Gazette (page 38)

     The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately […]

語源 2

From Chinese 茶 (“tea”).

名詞

tea (複数形 teas)

1. A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction.

使用する際の注意点

This term is found in English translations of Chinese-language historical fiction, where it is used to give the work an ancient Chinese feel.

参照

アナグラム

• -ate, AET, Até, Atë, ETA, a.e.t., aet, ate, eat, eta, æt.