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語源 1

From 中期英語 gilden, gelden, gulden, from 古期英語 gylden, from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden”), from *gulþą (“gold”), equivalent to gold +‎ -en. Cognate with Dutch gulden, German gülden, Swedish gyllen.

形容詞

gilden (comparative more gilden, superlative most gilden)

1. (obsolete) Golden; made of gold.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Visions of the World's Vanity:

     In summer's day, when Phœbus fairly shone / I saw a Bull as white as driven snow / With gilden horns embowéd like the moon / In a fresh flow'ring meadow lying low

語源 2

From gild +‎ -en.

動詞

gilden (third-person singular simple present gildens, present participle gildening, simple past and past participle gildened)

1. (ambitransitive) To make or become golden or gilded
   • 1936, International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers' Journal, page 70:

     A little of his pleasure was in the anticipation of seeing Southern Italy in bloom, now that spring is there. But George had a cold. He went to the Moses Taylor hospital. Next week when the great ship docks in Southern Italy, perhaps the sun will be gildening, there will be color and laughter at the dock, for the Italians are a happy race; but George will not be there.

   • 1969, John Rekem, Zobor, the mount and the monastery, page 51:

     Cover of Gospel book with relic of Holy Cross made of Silver, gildened with enamel rosettas.

   • 1992, Stella M. Hryniuk, Twenty Years of Multiculturalism: Successes and Failures, page 137:

     You were mine:
     In your early morning's gildening ray
     I first became aware of bliss and pain, -
     Pure like a pearl.

アナグラム

• Dingle, dingle, elding, engild, ingled

動詞

ġilden

1. plural present subjunctive of ġildan

語源

From 古期英語 gylden.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡiːldən/, /ˈɡildən/

形容詞

gilden

1. Formed from gold.
2. Covered or decorated with gold.
3. Golden in colour.
4. (figurative) Having great wealth; rich.
5. (figurative) Glorious, worthy of honour; blessed, happy.

派生した語

• English: gilden; golden (by way of Middle English golden)
• Scots: gilten (obsolete); gowden (by way of Middle English golden)

参考

• golden

参照

• “gī̆lden, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 April 2018.