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• sprunt (dialectal)

語源

Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Northern 中期英語 sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta (for later spretta), from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).

発音

• IPA: /spɹɪnt/
• 韻: -ɪnt

名詞

sprint (plural sprints)

1. A short race at top speed.
2. A burst of speed or activity.
3. (software engineering) In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.

派生した語

動詞

sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)

1. (ambitransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp.

派生語

アナグラム

• intprs., prints