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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tûrn, IPA: /tɜːn/
• (General American) enPR: tûrn, IPA: /tɝn/
• 異形同音異義語: turn, tarn
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)n

語源 1

Via an East Anglian dialect, from some Scandinavian (North Germanic) language, related to Danish terne, Norwegian terne, and Swedish tärna, all from Old Norse þerna (“tern; maidservant”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *þewernā (“handmaid, young girl”). First attested in the 1670s.

名詞

tern (plural terns)

1. Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

別の表記

• terne (obsolete, 17th c.)

下位語

派生語

• ternery

参考

• sea swallow (“common tern”) (one sense)

語源 2

The noun is derived from Late 中期英語 terne (“throw of a die or dice showing the number three”), from Old French terne (“gathering of three people; trinity”) (modern French terne), from Latin ternās, the accusative feminine plural of ternī (“three each; three at a time”), from ter (“thrice”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + -ī (from -us (suffix forming adjectives)).

The adjective is either derived from the noun, or directly from Latin ternī (“three each; three at a time”); see above.

名詞

tern (plural terns)

1. (dated or obsolete) A thing with three components; a set of three things.
   1. (gambling, dated) A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.
      • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 319:

        And yet, now even, if Madonna willed, / She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery, / And better all things.

形容詞

tern (not comparable)

1. (chiefly botany, rare) Consisting of three components; ternate, threefold, triple.

   Synonyms: ternary, treble, trine; see also Thesaurus:triple

   Coordinate terms: quatern, (obsolete, rare) quine

   tern flowers    tern leaves

   a tern schooner, one with three masts

参照

Further reading

• tern on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• tern (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Sternidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Sternidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

アナグラム

• Rent, rent, tren