begetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 begeten [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from 古期英語 beġietan (“to get”), from Proto-Germanic *bigetaną (“to find, seize”), equivalent to be- +‎ get. Cognate with Old Saxon bigetan (“to find, seize”), Old High German bigezan (“to gain, achieve, win, procure”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /biˈɡɛt/, /bɪˈɡɛt/, /bəˈɡɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt

動詞

beget (third-person singular simple present begets, present participle begetting, simple past begot or (archaic) begat, past participle begotten or (rare) begot) (transitive)

1. (chiefly literary) To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.

   The King intends to beget a child within the next five years.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 5:3:

     ¶ And Adam liued an hundred and thirtie yeeres, and begate a ſonne in his owne likeneſſe, after his image; and called his name Seth.

   • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33:

     This ogress too was begotten of the blood of Cain, whose brood had been doomed forever to the icy floods and freezing waters of the earth.

   • 2003, William H. Frist, Shirley Wilson, Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 110:

     I believe good people beget good people. If you marry the right person, then you will have good children. But everywhere else in life, too, good people beget good people. In your work, when you hire good people, they, in turn, will hire good ...

2. To cause; to produce; to bring forth.

   Synonym: breed

   Wealth begets wealth; poverty begets poverty.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     How one’s thoughts will travel! and how quickly our wishes beget them!

   • 2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 9 May 2012:

     In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.

   • 2012 February 1, Kathy Gilbert, “Pitching In”, in Chatter Chattanooga‎, retrieved 29 September 2012:

     Rugby football was created in the early 1800s at England’s all-boys Rugby School. The sport begat American football, Gaelic football, Australian rules football and Association football (aka soccer).

   • 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:

     Violence begets violence, and the only people still remaining will do the very thing that the living were fighting to preserve during the battle against the Night King: They’ll remember, and keep the memory of this bloodbath alive.

3. (obsolete) To get or obtain.
   • 1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     If there bee neuer a Seruant-monſter i' the Fayre, who can helpe it, he ſayes ; nor a neſt of Antiques ?   Hee is loth to make Nature afraid in his Playes, like thoſe that beget Tales, Tempeſts, and ſuch like Drolleries, […]

4. (UK dialectal) To happen to; befall.

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参考

• be born
• give birth

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “beget”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “beget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.