英和和英

動詞

devel (third-person singular simple present devels, present participle develling, simple past and past participle develled)

1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel

アナグラム

• Delve, delve

語源

From 古期英語 dēofol, dēoful, from earlier dīobul, from Proto-West Germanic *diubul, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

発音

• IPA: /ˈdeːvəl/, /ˈdɛvəl/, /deːl/

名詞

devel (plural develes or defles or develen)

1. Satan, Lucifer (in Early ME, without the definite article)
   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Summoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 1693–1696:

     Right so as bees out swarmen from an hyve, / Out of the develes ers ther gonne dryve / Twenty thousand freres on a route / And thurghout helle swarmed al aboute...

     Just like bees swarm from a hive / Out of the devil's arse there were driven / Twenty thousand friars on a rout / And throughout hell they swarmed all about...

2. A devil; an evil creature that resides in the Christian hell.
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, James 2:19, page 110r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     þou bileueſt þat o god is .· þou doiſt wel / ⁊ deuelis bileuen .· ⁊ tremblen

     You believe that there's one God; you're doing well. But devils believe, and tremble.

3. A pagan or heretical god; a deity considered to be false or an idol.
4. (figurative) A malicious or sinful person; one who is evil.
5. (rare) A fantastic beast or monstrous creature.

派生語

派生した語

• English: devil (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: deil, deel, deevil
• Yola: deevil, deel (syncopated)

参照

• “dẹ̄vel, devel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.