Wiktionary英語版
出典：Wiktionary
ostent
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/01/15 18:12 UTC 版)
語源 1
From Middle French ostenter (“to make an ostentatious display of”), or directly from its etymon Latin ostentāre (“to exhibit, present, show; to show off”), frequentative of ostendere (“to exhibit, show”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + tendere (“to extend, stretch; to distend”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Doublet of ostentate.
発音
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒstɛnt/
- (General American) IPA: /ˈɑstɛnt/
- ハイフネーション: os‧tent
動詞
ostent (third-person singular simple present ostents, present participle ostenting, simple past and past participle ostented)
語源 2
From Latin ostentus (“a display, exhibition, show”), from ostendere (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.
発音
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɒˈstɛnt/
- (General American) IPA: /ɑˈstɛnt/, /ə-/
- ハイフネーション: os‧tent
名詞
ostent (plural ostents)
- (archaic, rare) A display, an exhibition; an appearance, a manifestation.
-
c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
-
c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene viii]:
-
- A boastful, ostentatious display or exhibition.
語源 3
From Middle French ostente (“amazing or marvellous thing; prodigy, wonder”) or directly from its etymon Latin ostentum (“portent”), from ostendere (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.
The plural form ostenta is from Latin ostenta.
発音
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒstɛnt/
- (General American) IPA: /ˈɑstɛnt/
- ハイフネーション: os‧tent
名詞
ostent (plural ostents or ostenta)
- (archaic, rare) A portent, a token.
-
1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
-
名詞
ostent (plural ostents)
- (obsolete or historical) One sixtieth of an hour: a minute (60 seconds).
-
1926 [????], Roger Bacon, Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi..., page 291:
-
[…] one would be inclined to suspect some confusion in Bede's information, seeing that 40 moments and 60 ostents both are equal to an hour. I cannot find an example of the use of ostentum as a measure of time before Bede, and it is first used as one-sixtieth of an hour in 978 A.D. by Alcuin, who knows a double use.
-
-
使用する際の注意点
- Distinguished in medieval times from the "minute" that was one tenth of an hour, or six modern minutes.
参照
- ^ “† ostent, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004. - ^ “ostent, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004.
- ↑ “ostent, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004.
調べた例文を記録して、効率よく覚えましょう
Weblio会員無料で登録できます
履歴機能
過去に調べた単語を確認できる
語彙力診断
診断回数が4回に増加
マイ単語帳
便利な学習機能付き
マイ例文帳
文章で意味を理解できる
- Wiktionary
- Text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) and/or GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
Weblio英和・和英辞典に掲載されている「Wiktionary英語版」の記事は、Wiktionaryのostent (改訂履歴)の記事を複製、再配布したものにあたり、Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA)もしくはGNU Free Documentation Licenseというライセンスの下で提供されています。
