wyvernとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Alteration of 中期英語 wyver (“viper”), from Old Northern French wivre, from Vulgar Latin *vivra, *vibra, from Latin vīpera (“viper; snake, serpent”). Doublet of weever and viper. Related to viviparous.

発音

• enPR: wī'və(r)n, wĭ'və(r)n, wē'və(r)n
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwaɪvən/, /ˈwɪvən/, /ˈwiːvən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈwaɪvəɹn/, /ˈwɪvəɹn/, /ˈwiːvəɹn/
• 韻: -aɪvə(ɹ)n, -ɪvə(ɹ)n, -iːvə(ɹ)n

名詞

wyvern (plural wyverns)

1. (heraldry, mythology, fantasy) A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its moldwarps, its wyverns, and its dragons.

   • 1940-54 The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry, "WE SIT UNHACKLED DRUNK AND MAD TO EDIT", UBC Press,1992, p.222:

     Notions of freedom are tied up in drink / Our ideal life contains a tavern / Where man may sit and talk of or just think / All without fear of the nighted wyvern, / Or yet another tavern where it appears.

   • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 479:

     Above the shield was the well-known Midland crest of a legless wyvern (a wyvern normally has two legs).

参考

• wyvern on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dragon
• drake
• lindworm
• wyrm