Meedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 meede, mede, from 古期英語 mēd, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).

Cognate with obsolete Dutch miede (“wages”), Low German Meed (“rent”), German Miete (“rent”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 (mizdō, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”); further Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”), Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”), Sanskrit मीळ्ह (mīḷhá), Sanskrit मीढ (mīḍhá), Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda).

名詞

meed (plural meeds)

1. (now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 6:

     For well ſhe wiſt,​as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,​her ſeruice,​and her vtmoſt wealth.

   • 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:

     Brought up in darkness, and the child of sin,
     Yet, as the meed of spotless innocence,
     Just Heaven permitted her by one good deed
     To work her own redemption, after death.

   • 1829, Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress:

     Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may here after operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars.

   • 1880, translation by Richard Francis Burton of Os Lusiadas, Canto IX, stanza 93 by Luís de Camões

     Better to merit and the meed to miss,
     than, lacking merit, every meed possess.

   • 1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “V. The Captain of Vlaye”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:

     Nor, save for a circumstance presently to be named, could even the Abbess's sullen curiosity have withheld a meed of admiration as the panorama unfolded itself before her.

   • 1936, Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders:

     [Poirot continued,] "And here a full meed of praise is due to Hastings, who made a simple and obvious remark to which no attention was paid."

   • 1953 October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 686:

     The shed staff deserve their meed of praise for the result, but I believe that Driver Willie Bain is largely responsible.

2. A gift; bribe.
3. (dated) Merit; worth.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii], page 167, column 2:

     […] my meed hath got me fame: […]

   • 1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an, note 3687 on 33:16:

     In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:meed.

派生語

• meedful
• meedless

語源 2

From 中期英語 meden, from 古期英語 *mēdian (“to reward, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdōn, from Proto-Germanic *mizdōną (“to reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰ- (“to pay”). Cognate with German Low German meden (“to hire, lease, rent”), German mieten (“to rent”).

動詞

meed (third-person singular simple present meeds, present participle meeding, simple past and past participle meeded)

1. (transitive) To reward; bribe.
2. (transitive) To deserve; merit.

参考

• sosh meed

アナグラム

• Deem, Mede, deem, deme

名詞

meed

1. alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

語源 2

名詞

meed

1. alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

語源 3

名詞

meed

1. alternative form of mede (“reward”)