verdureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvɜːd͡ʒə/, /ˈvɜːdjə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈvɝd͡ʒɚ/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)
• Homophone: verger (one pronunciation)
• ハイフネーション: ver‧dure

名詞

verdure (countable and uncountable, plural verdures)

1. The greenness of lush or growing vegetation (greenery); also: the vegetation itself.

   Synonyms: verdancy, greenliness, greenth

   Hypernym: greenness

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 1, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.

   • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:

     Through the brazen hours that followed high noon, we crept onwards through a tunnel of glittering verdure.

   • 1954 August, H. M. Madgwick, “The Blaenau Festiniog Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:

     This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.

2. (by extension) A condition of health and vigour.

関連する語

• verdant
• verdurous

動詞

verdure (third-person singular simple present verdures, present participle verduring, simple past and past participle verdured)

1. (transitive) To cover with verdure.

派生語

• reverdure

語源

Borrowed from Middle French verdure, from Old French verdure, from Late Latin *viridūra; reinforced by Middle French verdeur. By surface analysis, vert +‎ -ure.

発音

• IPA: /vɛrˈdiu̯r(ə)/
• IPA: /vɛrˈduːr/ (from Middle French verdeur)
• IPA: /ˈvɛrdur(ə)/, /ˈvɛrdər(ə)/ (reduced)

名詞

verdure (uncountable)

1. Verdure, greenery; lush vegetation.
2. The greenness or vitality associated with such vegetation
3. (rare) A kind of ornamental tapestry with botanical imagery.

派生した語

• English: verdure (obsolete verdour)
• Middle Scots: verdeour, verdur, verdure, vardour, wairdour

参照

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