widwereとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• wydower, wydowere, wyduer
• wedewer (Hampshire); wyduare (Promptorium Parvulorum)

語源

From widwe (“widow, widower”) +‎ -ere (agentive suffix); compare Middle Dutch wêduwâre, Middle High German witewære, and Middle Low German wêdewêre. First attested in c. 1390.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwidwər(ə)/, /ˈwidɔu̯ər(ə)/
• IPA: /ˈwidiu̯ər(ə)/ (especially Kent, Southern, South Midland)

名詞

widwere (plural widweres) (not Northern)

1. A widower (man whose wife has died and hasn't remarried)
2. (rare) A man who has remarried.

派生した語

• English: widower

参照

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