noriceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

引用

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

参照

• “norice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Cerino, Cirone, Coiner, coiner, orcein, orcine, recoin

語源

Borrowed from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, ultimately from Latin nūtrīx.

発音

• IPA: /nuˈriːs(ə)/, /ˈnur(i)s(ə)/, /noːr-/, /-ʃ(ə)/

名詞

norice (plural norices or norice)

1. A person (usually a woman) employed to take care of one's children; a nanny.
   1. A person who breastfeeds a child; a wet-nurse.
   2. (rare, Christianity) Mary as the guardian of Jesus.
2. (by extension) A proponent or engenderer (of a quality, behaviour, etc.)
   • 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parson's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales‎:

     Slepynge longe in greet quiete is eek a greet norice to Leccherie

     A long and peaceful sleep is also a true encourager of profligacy.

3. An animal or plant as a caretaker of its offspring.
4. (rare) Nourishment, rearing, raising.
5. (rare) A provider of religious support or education.

関連する語

• noricerie

派生した語

• English: nurse (obsolete norice, nourice, nourse)
• Scots: nourice, nuirice

参照

• “norī̆ce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.