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語源

From 中期英語 myldew, from 古期英語 meledēaw, mildēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *milidauw, from *mili (“honey”) +‎ *dauw (“dew”). Compare West Frisian moaldau, Dutch meeldauw, German Mehltau. More at dew.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmɪl.djuː/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmɪl.d(j)u/
• 韻: -ɪldjuː, -ɪldu

名詞

mildew (countable and uncountable, plural mildews)

1. (phytopathology) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

派生語

派生した語

• → Catalan: míldiu
• → French: mildiou
• → Portuguese: míldio
• → Spanish: mildiu

動詞

mildew (third-person singular simple present mildews, present participle mildewing, simple past and past participle mildewed)

1. (transitive) To taint with mildew.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 298, column 1:

     Hee giues the Web and the Pin, ſquints the eye, and makes the Hare‐lippe; Mildewes the white Wheate, and hurts the poore Creature of earth.

2. (intransitive) To become tainted with mildew.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 24:

     His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull.

参考

• mould, mold