stellとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 stellen, from 古期英語 stellan (“to give a place to, set, place”), from Proto-West Germanic *stalljan (“to put, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with Dutch stellen (“to set, put”), dated Low German stellen (“to put, place, fix”), German stellen (“to set, place, provide”), 古期英語 steall (“position, place”). More at stall.

動詞

stell (third-person singular simple present stells, present participle stelling, simple past and past participle stelled or stold)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead; he scarcely was aware of the saddle in which he sat, and his eyes were stelled in his head so that he saw nothing but the sky ayont him.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To portray; delineate; display.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, lines 1443–44:

     To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come,
     To find a face where all distress is stelled.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 24”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
     Thy beauty's form in table of my heart […]

語源 2

Alteration of stall, after the verb to stell.

名詞

stell (plural stells)

1. (archaic) A place; station.
2. A stall; a fold for cattle.
3. (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
4. (Scotland) A still.
   • 1786, Robert Burns, The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer:

     Paint Scotland greetin owre her thrissle;
     Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle;
     An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle,
     Seizin a stell,
     Triumphant crushin't like a mussel,
     Or limpet shell!

   • 1791, Robert Burns, Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation:

     The English stell we could disdain,
     Secure in valour's station;
     But English gold has been our bane—
     Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

関連する語

• stall

アナグラム

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