uberteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Middle French uberte, from Latin ūbertās, from ūber (“womb”). First attested in c. 1440.

発音

• IPA: /ˌiu̯bərˈteː/

名詞

uberte (uncountable)

1. (Late Middle English, rare) abundance, profusion
   • c. 1460, John Lydgate, A Tale of Two Merchants/Fabula duorum mercatorum, l. 613

     'And yiff a tre with frut be ovirlade'/In his epistles he seith, as ye may see,/'Both braunche and bough wol enclyne and fade,/And greyne oppressith to moche vberte:/Right so it farith of fals felicite,/That of his weighte mesure doth exceede/Than of a fal gretly is to dreede'.

派生した語

• English: uberty (now rare)

参照

• “ūbertẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “uberty, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.