sniteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

snite (plural snites)

1. (obsolete or Scotland) A snipe.
   • 1630, Thomas Randolph, The Muse's Looking-Glass:

     Larks , thrushes , quails , woodcocks , snites , and pheasants,
     The best that can be got for love or money

語源 2

From 中期英語 snyten, from 古期英語 snȳtan (“to clear or blow the nose”), from Proto-Germanic *snūtijaną (“to blow the nose”). Cognate with Old Norse snýta (“to blow the nose”), whence Danish snyde and Swedish snyta sig, and with German sich schneuzen. Related to snout and snot.

別の表記

• snet

動詞

snite (third-person singular simple present snites, present participle sniting, simple past and past participle snited)

1. (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to blow (one's nose)
2. (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to snuff (a candle)

参照

• Thomson, J. - Etymons of English words - pg. 199

参照

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

アナグラム

• Tiens, set in, Tines, senti, nites, tsien, set-in, tsine, Stein, neist, -stein, inset, sient, stein, tines