susterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• sustah

アナグラム

• estrus, Tusser, russet, surest, Suters, tusser, struse

語源

From 古期英語 sweostor, swustor, sweoster, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Some forms are influenced by Old Norse systir.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsustər/, /ˈsistər/
• (Early Middle English) IPA: /ˈswustər/
• (Southern) IPA: /ˈzustər/, /ˈzistər/

名詞

suster (plural sustren or sustres or (rare) suster, genitive singular sustres or suster)

1. A sister or step-sister; a female sibling.
2. A (Christian) woman (i.e. as a "sister in life/Christ")
3. A nun, anchoress; a woman living a religious lifestyle.
   • c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎, Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 1, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:

     Ant ȝe mine leoue ſuſtren habbeð moni dei icrauet on me efter riƿle

     And you, my beloved sisters, have asked me for a rule many times.

4. (nautical) A catch to secure cords at sea.

関連する語

• susterhede
• suster-in-lawe

派生した語

• English: sister
  • → Gulf Arabic: سِسْتَر (sistar, “female nurse”)
  • → Japanese: シスター (shisutā)
  • → Korean: 시스터 (siseuteo)
• Scots: sister, syster
• Yola: zister

参照

• “suster, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 February 2019.