wit aとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *witō. Cognate with Old Frisian wita, Old Saxon *wito (attested in giwito “witness”), and Old High German wizzo. Equivalent to witan +‎ -a.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwi.tɑ/
• 韻: -i.tɑ

名詞

wita m

1. wise person; (especially in compounds) knower
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     forþon ne mæġ wearþan wīs · wer, ǣr hē āge
     wintra dǣl in woruldrīċe. · Wita sċeal ġeþyldiġ.

     thus a man cannot become wise, before he would own
     a part of years in world-kingdom. A wise man must be patient.

2. advisor

語形変化

Weak:

派生語

• ġewita (“witness”)
• unwita (“idiot”)
• ūþwita (“philosopher”)
• witena ġemōt (“king's council”)

語源

Borrowed from 古期英語 wīte.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈwiː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈwiː.ta]

名詞

wīta f (genitive wītae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. a fine, an amercement, a mulct (a pecuniary penalty)
2. a vendetta, a feud

語形変化

First-declension noun.

同意語

• (fine, amercement, mulct): multa (Classical)

派生語

• jūrō secundum wītam
• plēna wīta

関連する語

参照

• "wita", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “wita”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,136/2