sprengenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 sprenġan, from Proto-West Germanic *sprangijan, from Proto-Germanic *sprangijaną; compare spryngen.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsprɛnd͡ʒən/, /ˈsprind͡ʒən/

動詞

sprengen (third-person singular simple present sprengeth, present participle sprengende, sprengynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle sprenged)

1. To sprinkle or asperse; to spread in small drops or bits.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Shipmans Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     He wolden sowen som difficultee, / Or springen cockle in our clene corn.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. To diffuse or spray with a mist or gas.
3. To combine or intermingle; to (cause to) become blended.
4. (figuratively) To cleanse or purify from taint.
5. (rare, of the sun) To rise; to emerge or appear.

Conjugation

派生した語

• English: springe (obsolete)

参照

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