Steppeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /stɛp/
• 韻: -ɛp
• Homophone: step

名詞

steppe (countable and uncountable, plural steppes)

1. The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. [from 1671]

   Coordinate terms: pampas (South America), plain (North America), prairie (North America), savanna (North America), veld (South Africa)

   • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Preliminary”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 3:

     Nevertheless be it remarked, that even a Russian steppe has tumuli and gold ornaments […]

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 187:

     Enkidu was the hairy man of the wild steppes, and Gilgamesh was the hero of civilization; but now the contrast is between Gilgamesh, the king, the man of political power, the heroic man of action, the extrovert, and Utnapishtim, the man of religious authority, the introvert, the sage.

2. A vast, cold, dry, grassy plain.
   • 2000, Mary Elizabeth v. N., “Steppe”, in Blue Planet Biomes‎, West Tisbury Elementary School:

     Grasslands: The Steppe biome is a dry, cold, grassland that is found in all of the continents except Australia and Antarctica. It is mostly found in the USA, Mongolia, Siberia, Tibet and China. There isn't much humidity in the air because Steppe is located away from the ocean and close to mountain barriers.

使用する際の注意点

• While the region may correspond to the steppe biome, it is uncommon to refer to the landscapes of Canada as steppes, in contrast to the more conventional usage of the term when describing the steppes of Asia or Russia.

派生語

参照

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “степ”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

Further reading

• steppe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Estepp

動詞

steppe

1. inflection of steppan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

語源

From 古期英語 stæpe, stepe, from Proto-West Germanic *stapi. The (historical) geminate is due to the influence of steppen.

発音

• IPA: /ˈstɛp(ə)/, /ˈstɛːp(ə)/, /ˈstap(ə)/, /ˈstaːp(ə)/

名詞

steppe (plural steppes)

1. A step, pace (movement of the foot)
2. A step or stair; an individual landing of a set of stairs.
3. An imprint or sign of something; that which something leaves as evidence:
   1. The imprint left by a step; a footprint or track.
   2. The imprint left by a thing, person or phenomenon (extant or former)
   3. (figurative) The remains left by an injury or disease.
4. The bottom region of the foot; the sole.
5. A phase, step or tier as part of a scale or process.
6. (figurative) A move, action or direction (towards an objective).
7. (rare) The length covered by a step (as a unit of length, ~2.5 feet)
8. (rare) The ground; a foothold or stepping-place.
9. (rare) A group or a thing that is part of it.

派生した語

• English: step
• Scots: step, stap, stop

参照

• “step, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-1.