Calverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɑːvə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkævɚ/
• 韻: -ɑːvə(ɹ), -ævə(ɹ)
• Homophone: carver (Received Pronunciation)

名詞

calver (plural calvers)

1. A cow that produces young.

関連する語

• down-calver
• first calver
• second calver

語源 2

As the adjective predates the verb, possibly from 中期英語 calver (“interspersed with flakes”), from 古期英語 calwer. Cognate with Scots caller.

形容詞

calver

1. Of salmon: freshly caught.

   calver salmon

動詞

calver (third-person singular simple present calvers, present participle calvering, simple past and past participle calvered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cut into slices and pickle.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]

   • 1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger‎, published 1845, act 4, scene 2, page 429:

     Great lords sometimes / For change leave calver'd salmon and eat sprats.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.
   • 1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler:

     [A Grayling's] flesh will so easily calver that […] [it] is very good meat at all times.

アナグラム

• carvel, claver

別の表記

• calvar, calvur

発音

• IPA: /ˈkalvər/

形容詞

calver

1. (rare, of salmon) Having curd-like flakes throughout.

派生した語

• English: calver
• Scots: caller

参照

• “calver, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

名詞

calver

1. plural of calf (“young cow”)