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語源

From 中期英語 elde, from 古期英語 ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).

Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), 古期英語 alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.

発音

• IPA: /ɛld/
• 韻: -ɛld

名詞

eld (uncountable)

1. (rare or dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life.
   • 1868, John Eadie, A Biblical Cyclopædia:

     The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law.

   • 1913, Paulist Fathers, Catholic World:

     Promptly appeared a paragon, aged twenty-five or thereabouts, and exhibiting all the steadiness and serenity of advanced eld.

2. (archaic or poetic) Old age, senility; an old person.

   Synonyms: elderliness; see also Thesaurus:old age, Thesaurus:old person

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 223:

     Dotard, (ſaide he) let be thy deepe aduiſe;
     Seemes that through many yeares thy wits thee faile,
     And that weake eld hath left thee nothing wiſe,
     Els neuer ſhould thy iudgement be ſo frayle,
     To meaſure manhood by the ſword or mayle.

   • 1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Threnody”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 245:

     Taught he not thee—the man of eld, / Whose eyes within his eyes beheld / Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man?

   • 1904, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sun's Shame, verse 2, lines 1–3:

     As some true chief of men, bowed down with stress
     Of life's disastrous eld, on blossoming youth
     May gaze, and murmur with self-pity and ruth […]

   • 1912, Herbert Van Allen Ferguson, Rhymes of Eld:

     The withered limbs of eld, the thin, gray hair […]

   • 1912, Arthur S[anders], transl. Way, Medea, Heinemann, translation of Medea by Euripides, published 1946, page 329:

     the alien wife / No crown of honour was as eld drew on.

3. (archaic or poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:eon

4. (archaic or poetic) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.

   Synonyms: days of yore; see also Thesaurus:the past

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 38:

     Once adown the dewy way a youthful cavalier spurred with a maiden mounted behind him, swiftly passing out of sight, recalling to the imagination some romance of eld, when the damosel fled with her lover.

形容詞

eld (comparative elder, superlative eldest)

1. (obsolete) Old.

同意語

• (old): aged, venerable; see also Thesaurus:old

関連する語

動詞

eld (third-person singular simple present elds, present participle elding, simple past and past participle elded)

1. (intransitive, archaic, poetic or dialectal) To age, become or grow old.
2. (intransitive, archaic or poetic) To delay; linger.
3. (transitive, archaic or poetic) To make old, age.

同意語

• (to age): elden; see also Thesaurus:to age
• (to linger): abide; see also Thesaurus:tarry or Thesaurus:procrastinate
• (to make old): mature; see also Thesaurus:make older

参照

• 1906, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "eld".

アナグラム

• DLE, Del, Del., EDL, LDE, LED, del, del., led, μLED