plebeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /plib/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pliːb/
• 韻: -iːb

名詞

plebe (plural plebes)

1. (historical, usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.
   • 1562–1565 (date written), Thomas Smyth [i.e., Thomas Smith], “The Diuision of the Parts and Persons of the Common Wealth”, in De Republica Anglorum. The Maner of Gouernement or Policie of the Realme of England, […], London: […] Henrie Midleton for Gregorie Seton, published 1583, →OCLC, pages 19–20:

     Another the like was among the Romanes of Patricij & plebes, thone ſtriuing with thother a long time, the patricij many yeares excluding the plebes from bearing rule, vntill at laſt all magiſtrates were made cõmon [common] betweene thẽ [them]: […]

2. (historical, obsolete) The plebs, the plebeian class.
   • 1612, Thomas Heywood, chapter II, in An Apology for Actors:

     All other roomes were free for the plebe or multitude.

3. (obsolete) The similar lower class of any area.
4. (US, military, slang) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
   • 1834 October, Military & Naval Magazine, page 85:

     My drill master, a young stripling, told me I was not so ‘gross’ as most other pleibs, the name of all new cadets.

   • 1910, H. Irving Hancock, Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point, page 84:

     "But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?"
     "If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn."

   • 2014, David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, page 8:

     Plebes spend their first summer at Cadet Basic Training — Beast Barracks — where they get soldierized.

   • 2018 October 26, Joe Crochet, My Winning Seasons: Discovering the Champion Within, page 3:

     “You went to The Citadel?” her mother chimed in. “I’ve heard so many great things about that institution. Did you go through a plebe year?” I told her I did and that we called it the knob year because freshman cadets had to shave their heads bald to resemble the butt end of a door knob and keep it that way for an entire ten months while going through the process of being broken down, only to be built back up.

派生語

• pleb, plebe class, plebe year, plebeskin

関連する語

• pleb, plebs, plebeian

参照

• “plebe, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2006.

アナグラム

• bleep