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語源

Borrowed from Old French defaute.

発音

• IPA: /dɛːˈfau̯t(ə)/

名詞

defaute (plural defautes)

1. lack, absence
   • c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:

     I have so many an ydel thoght / Purely for defaulte of slepe / That by my trouthe I take no kepe / Of noo thinge how hyt cometh or gooth / Ne me nys no thynge leve nor looth

     I have so many idle thoughts / Purely from lack of sleep / That I swear I take no heed / Of anything, whether it comes or goes, / And nothing is either dear to me or hated.

2. failure to do something
3. absence, failure to appear somewhere, especially (law) failure to appear in court
4. lieu, stead, place
5. need, poverty
6. defect, blemish, flaw
7. mistake, error
8. crime, sin, wrong act
9. fault, guilt, culpability, responsibility for something bad
10. eclipse (of the sun)
11. wane (of the moon)
12. ebb (of the sea)

派生語

派生した語

• English: default

参照

• “dēfaut(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2023-11-10.