tentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: tĕnt, IPA^(key): /tɛnt/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /tɪnt/
    • Homophone: tint
• 韻: -ɛnt
• Homophone: tint (with pin-pen merger)

語源 1

From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”). Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from 古期英語 teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).

名詞

tent (複数形 tents)

1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.

   We were camping in a three-man tent.

   We bought a new tent that can be put up in five seconds, but it took about twenty minutes to take it down and pack it away.

2. (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3. (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.

4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
   • 2013, Nathan Lapointe, A Strange New World:

     […] feeling his erection making a tent in his pants.

派生語

動詞

tent (三人称単数 現在形 tents, 現在分詞 tenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 tented)

1. (intransitive) To go camping.

   We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.

2. (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
3. (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.

   The sheet tented over his midsection.

4. Synonym of fumigate

参考

• camp
• lean-to
• lodge
• pavilion, pavillion
• pitch
• tarp

語源 2

From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”).

動詞

tent (三人称単数 現在形 tents, 現在分詞 tenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 tented)

1. (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
   • 14th century, anonymous, The Romance of Syr Tryamoure

     He let hur have wemen at wylle,
     To tent hur, and that was skylle,
     And brought hur to bede

2. (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.

名詞

tent (複数形 tents)

1. (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
   • a. 1451, John Lydgate, The Prohemy of a Marriage betwixt and Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail &c.:

     Lo ! lo ! my frend , take tent to this womman

2. (archaic) Intention; design.
   • a. 1300, anonymous author, Cursor Mundi:

     A-pon þe feild his fader went
     And soght abel wit al his tent

語源 3

From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tentāre (“to probe, test”), alteration of temptāre (“to test, probe, tempt”).

名詞

tent (複数形 tents)

2. (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
3. (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.

動詞

tent (三人称単数 現在形 tents, 現在分詞 tenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 tented)

1. (medicine, sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

   to tent a wound

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     I'll tent him to the quick.

語源 4

From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge. Doublet of tint and tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.

名詞

tent (複数形 tents)

2. (archaic) A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

   Synonyms: tent wine, tinta

   Coordinate terms: claret, hock, sack

参照

• “tent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Nett, nett