woruldlicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-Germanic *weraldilīkaz, equivalent to woruld +‎ -līċ. Cognate with Old High German weraltlīh.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwo.ruld.liːt͡ʃ/, [ˈwo.ruɫd.liːt͡ʃ]

形容詞

woruldlīċ

1. worldly, earthly, natural, physical, temporal, mundane
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Þā brōhte sē cniht tō þām clǣnan mǣdene dēorwurþa ġimmas and woruldlīċe glenċġa and behēt hire welan ġif hēo wolde hine.

     Then the boy brought the pure maiden valuable gems and worldly decorations and promised her riches if she would [be with] him.

2. secular, civil, worldly

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: worldly
  • English: worldly
  • Scots: warldly, wardly

参照

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “weoroldlíc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.