Streteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 strǣt, strēt, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Late Latin strāta (“paved road”). The final vowel is generalised from the 古期英語 inflected forms.

発音

• IPA: /ˈstreːt(ə)/, /ˈstrɛ̝ːt(ə)/
• IPA: /ˈstraːt(ə)/ (East Saxon)

名詞

strete (plural stretes or strete or (early) streten)

1. A road or path connecting two destinations.
2. A street; such a road or pathway within a settlement.
   • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 5-6; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:

     Þou comeſt fer iþe bꝛode ſtret fer iþe bꝛode ſtrete. / ſumme of þin cuneſmen ther thou meiſt imete.

     You'll go far down the main street, far down the main street; / You might [even] meet some of your relatives there.

3. A settlement; a conglomeration of habitations and shops.
4. (figurative) A choice or way of living; a doctrine.
5. (rare) A hallway or passage within a structure or building.
6. (rare) A porch or veranda; a covered deck.

派生した語

• English: street
• Scots: street, streit, stret
• → Breton: straed
• → Cornish: stret
• → Welsh: stryd

参照

• “strẹ̄t(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 March 2019.
• Burnley, David (1983), “5. Linguistic Diversity”, in A guide to Chaucer's language‎, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 110.