woadとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English wode, from 古期英語 wād (“woad”), from Proto-Germanic *waidą, *waidaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish).

発音

• 韻: -əʊd

名詞

woad (usually uncountable, 複数形 woads)

1. (countable) The plant Isatis tinctoria.
   • 1840, Francis S. Wiggins, The American Farmer's Instructor, Or Practical Agriculturist, page 185,

     Woad is one of those plants which yield the deep blue colouring matter so greatly valued in the arts — Indigo.

   • 1997, Joan Thirsk, Alternative Agriculture: A History, page 80,

     Woad was then placed on the regular shopping list of alternative crops.

   • 1998, Daniel C. Beaver, Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690, page 32,

     The cultivation of woad had taken hold in southern England during the early 1580s, but this dispute provides the earliest evidence of its cultivation in the fields around Tewkesbury.

2. (countable and uncountable) The blue dye made from the leaves of the plant.
   • 1814, Robert Henry, The History of Great Britain Volume XII, 5th Edition, page 309,

     To prevent this, it was enacted, that no wines of Gaſcony and Guienne, or woads of Tholouſe, should be imported into England, except in ships belonging to the King, or some of his ſubjects; and that all ſuch wines and woads imported in foreign bottoms ſhould be forfeited.

   • 1856, Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Practical Agriculture, page 462,

     But in the middle of the sixteenth century indigo was introduced from the East Indies: and in the seventeenth century its use became extended, and supplanted that of woad.

   • 1983, E. B. Fryde, Studies in Medieval Trade and Finance, page 360,

     Huge quanitities of alum and woad were disembarked each year at Southampton.

   • 2007, Richard L. Myers, The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide, page 152,

     For example, woad, a blue dye obtained from the plant Isatis tinctoria, was used throughout the Mediterannean and Europe and is often identified as indigo.

同意語

• (the plant): glastum, Isatis tinctoria
• (the blue dye): indigo, indigotin

関連する語

• woaden
• woad-waxen