scarsiteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Old Northern French escarsete and Anglo-Norman escarsite; by surface analysis, scars (“scarce, stingy”) +‎ -ite (“-ity”) or -te (“-ty”). First attested in c. 1390.

発音

• IPA: /ˌskaːrsiˈteː/, /ˈskaːrsiteː/ (from escarsite)
• IPA: /ˈskaːrs(ə)ˈteː/, /ˈskaːrs(ə)teː/ (from escarsete)

名詞

scarsite (uncountable)

1. Scarcity, dearth; the state of being insufficient:

   Synonym: scarsnesse

   1. An instance of scarcity; a shortage.
2. Rarity, uncommonness; the state of being rare:

   Synonym: scarsnesse

   1. Paucity, scantiness; the state of being few.
   2. Sparsenesse; the state of being spread out.
3. Stinginess, frugality; lack of generosity.

   Synonym: scarsnesse

4. Temperance or moderation (in food or drink)

   Synonym: scarsnesse

派生した語

• English: scarcity
• Middle Scots: scarcitie, scairstie
  • Scots: scarcity

参照

• “scā̆rsetẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “scarcity, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “(scarsity,) scarsitie, scairsitie, -tie, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.