wretheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• wreeþ, wreeþþe, wreþe, wreth
• wreðe (Early Middle English); wrythe (Ireland); wreythe (West Midland)
• wreȝ, wret, writh, writhe (Northern)

発音

• IPA: /ˈwrɛ̝ːð(ə)/

名詞

wrethe (uncountable)

1. Wrath, anger, or an instance of it.

   Synonym: wratthe

   1. Divine anger or punishment.
   2. A personification or representation of wrath.

関連する語

• wrethen

派生した語

• English: wrethe, wreath (obsolete)
• Middle Scots: wrethe, wreith

参照

• “wrēth(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “wrethe, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

語源 2

Inherited from Anglian 古期英語 *wreoþa (and Northumbrian and West Saxon 古期英語 wriþa), from Proto-West Germanic *wriþō, from Proto-Germanic *wriþô, from *wrīþaną (中期英語 writhen); thus distantly related to Etymology 1.

古期英語 wrǣd, wrǣþ (“bandage”) may have reinforced this word.

別の表記

• wreth, wreþe

発音

• IPA: /ˈwrɛ̞ːð(ə)/ (from Old English *wreoþa)
• IPA: /ˈwrið(ə)/ (from Old English wriþa; not attested in Middle English, but continued in English writh)
• IPA: /wreːð/, /wreːθ/ (Northern, from Old English wriþa with open-syllable lengthening)

名詞

wrethe (plural wrethes)

1. A coiled or twisted object:
   1. A ring or torc; a circular piece of jewellery.
   2. A fold or wrinkle (usually of skin)
   3. (rare) A stick composing a hurdle.
2. A chaplet, garland or wreath (especially as headwear)

派生語

• wrethen

派生した語

• English: wreath (obsolete writh)
• Middle Scots: *wrethe, wraethe, wryth
  • Scots: wreath, raith, wreeth

参照

• “wrēth(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “wreath, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

語源 3

動詞

wrethe

1. alternative form of wrethen (“to rage”)

語源 4

動詞

wrethe

1. alternative form of wrethen (“to writhe”)