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語源

From Latin īdyllium, from Ancient Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidúllion), from diminutive of εἶδος (eîdos, “form, shape”).

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: ĭdʹĭl, ĭdʹəl; IPA: /ˈɪd.ɪl/, /ˈɪd.əl/
• 韻: -ɪdɪl, -ɪdəl
• (米国発音) enPR: īʹdĭl, īʹdəl; IPA: /ˈaɪ.dɪl/, /ˈaɪ.dəl/
• 韻: -aɪdɪl, -aɪdəl
• 異形同音異義語: idle, idol (米国発音)

名詞

idyll (plural idylls)

1. Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
2. An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
3. (music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.

派生語

関連する語

• idyllic
• idyllical
• idyllically
• idyllist, idylist

参考

• idyll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “idyll”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “idyl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Dilly, dilly

名詞

idyll

1. alternative form of ydel (“idleness”)