weyknesseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From weyk (“weak”) +‎ -nesse (“-ness”). First attested in c. 1390.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwæi̯kˌnɛs(ə)/

名詞

weyknesse (uncountable)

1. Weakness, debility; lack of physical strength.
2. Moral or spiritual failure; lack of belief or virtue.
3. (rare) Poverty, powerlessness; a lack of wealth or power.
4. (rare) Cowardice, weakheartedness; lack of bravery or valour.
5. (rare, Early Scots) The absence of a quorum in a court.

派生した語

• English: weakness
• Middle Scots: waiknes
  • Scots: waikness

参照

• “weiknes(se, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 November 2018.
• “waiknes, wak(e)nes, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.