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語源 1

From 中期英語 sty, from 古期英語 stī, stiġ (“sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall”, chiefly in compounds).

Cognate with German Stiege (“wooden crate”), dialectal German Steige (“hen-coop”), Danish sti (“sty, enclosure for swine, sheep, hens, etc.”), Swedish stia (“sty for pigs, geese, etc.”), Norwegian sti (“flock of sheep”), Icelandic stía (“a kennel”).

名詞

sty (plural sties)

1. A pen or enclosure for swine.

   Synonyms: pigpen, pigsty

2. (figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.

   Synonyms: hovel, pigsty

   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

     To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.

別の表記

• stye

派生語

動詞

sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)

1. (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a sty.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     and here you sty me
     In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
     The rest o' the island

2. (transitive) To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.

別の表記

• stye

語源 2

From 中期英語 stien, stiȝen, stighen, from 古期英語 stīgan (“to go; ascend, mount”), from Proto-West Germanic *stīgan, from Proto-Germanic *stīganą, from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ-.

Cognate with Dutch stijgen, German steigen, Danish stige, Norwegian Bokmål stige, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish stiga, Old Norse stíga.

動詞

sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)

1. (obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb. [9th–17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].

   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     From this lower tract he dared to stie up to the clowdes.

   • 1621, Richard Montague, Diatribae upon the first part of the late History of Tithes:

     Led along, as some Creatures are, by the Noses, and voluntarily hood-winked; or like seeled Doves, sty up, you know not whither, nor how far.

   • 1652, Edward Benlowes, Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice:

     That she might sty to the seat of Beatifick Mirth.

別の表記

• stee, stie, stigh, stye

派生語

• styan
• styey
• stirrup

関連する語

• stile

名詞

sty (plural sties)

1. (British, dialectal) A ladder.

語源 3

From 中期英語 styanye, mistaken as "sty on eye" yet composed of 古期英語 stīġend (“sty”, literally “riser”), agent noun from stīgan (“to rise”) + 中期英語 yë (“eye”).

別の表記

• stye

名詞

sty (plural sties)

1. (pathology) An inflammation of the eyelid.

アナグラム

• YTS

別の表記

• stye, styȝe

発音

• IPA: /stiː/

名詞

sty (plural styes)

1. A pigsty (pen or set of pens for pigs)
2. (rare) Any other crude dwelling or abode.

派生した語

• English: sty

参照

• “stī, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 June 2018.

語源 2

名詞

sty

1. alternative form of stye (“path”)