belapとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English bilappen (“to envelop; to clothe; to surround; to blend, mix”),^[1] from bi- (completive, intensifying, または figurative prefix)^[2] + lappen (“to wrap; to place so as to enclose または enfold; to encase; to envelop; to clothe; to put on armour; to ensnare, snare”).^[3] Lappen is derived from lap, lappe (“loose part of a garment; folded or extended skirt, or loose sleeve, used to hold things; small piece of cloth or mail detached from a garment or coat of mail; a part, portion, share; a person’s lap; (also 比喩的に) a person’s bosom or breast; (anatomy) a loose part of the body (such as an earlobe または a lobe of the liver); female genitalia; cavity or sinus in the body; (in place names) piece of land at the edge of an estate or parish”)^[4] (from 古期英語 læppa (“skirt; (anatomy) lobe”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely (?)”)) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).^[5]

The English word is analysable as be- (prefix meaning ‘about; around’ または ‘completely, utterly’) +‎ lap (“to lap または wrap around, envelop, surround”).^[6]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /bɪˈlæp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bəˈlæp/
• 韻: -æp
• ハイフネーション: be‧lap

動詞

belap (三人称単数 現在形 belaps, 現在分詞 belapping, 過去形および過去分詞形 belapped)

1. (transitive, chiefly passive, obsolete) To lap or wrap around (someone または something); to envelop, to surround.

   Synonyms: enfold, environ, lap, (廃れた用法) umbelap

   • [15th century, Julius Zupitza, editor, The Romance of Guy of Warwick. The Second or 15th-century Version. […] (Extra Series; XXV–XXVI) (in Middle English), London: […] [F]or the Early English Text Society by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1875–1876, OCLC 1016305752, lines 7461–7464, page 214:

     There was redy in a wode / Two hundurde knyghtys, þat were gode. / Owte of the wode þey came anon / And belapped vs euerychon.

     There were ready in a wood / Two hundred knights, that were good. / Out of the wood they came anon / And surrounded us everyone.]

   • 1504, Thomas à Kempis, “Of the Corrupcyon of Nature and the Workynge of Grace”, in William Atkynson [i.e., William Atkinson], transl.; John K[ells] Ingram, editor, The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi, […] (Extra Series; LXIII), London: […] [F]or the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., […], published 1893, OCLC 1032035529, book III, lines 28–34, page 251:

     For the lytell vertue & strength of that nature the which remayneth / there is as who sayth a lytell sparke of fyre wrapped and hyd in asshes / This is the naturall reason of man belapped with great darkenes / yet hauing dyscrecion of good & yll / of truthe & falsenesse, though it be vnable to fulfyll all that he approueth, nor may nat vse yet the full lyghte of truth / nor his affeccyons helthfully

   • [1513 (date written; first published 1553), Virgil, “The Sext Buik of Eneados”, in Gavin Douglas, transl., The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, […], volume III (in Scots), Edinburgh: William Paterson; London: H. Sotheran & Co., published 1874, OCLC 2859293, chapter VII, lines 7–10, page 38:

     The wofull pule, with wattir wnluflly, / Withhaldis thaim so at thai may nocht go by; / And Stix, the flude, bylappis thaim about / Nyne tymis, sa close at thai sall neuer wyn out.

     The woeful pool, with water unlovely, / Withholds them so that they may not go by; / And Styx, the flood, belaps them about / Nine times, so close that they shall never win out.]

   • a. 1530 (date written), [John] Skelton, Here after Foloweth a Litel Boke Called Colyn Cloute […]‎^[1], London: […] [Robert Copland for] me Rycharde Kele […], published 1545?, OCLC 222307562:

     Ouer this the foresayd laye / Reporte howe the pope may / A holy anker call / Out of the stony wall / And hym a bysshop make / It he on hym dare take / To kepe so harde a rule / To ryde vpon a mule / With golde all betrapped / In purple and paule be lapped

   • 1552 November 7 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “A Sermon Preached by M. Hugh Latimer at Grimstorpe, the xxviii. of October, Anno 1552”, in [Augustine Bernher], editor, Fruitfull Sermons Preached by the Right Reuerend Father, and Constant Martyr of Iesus Christ, Master Hugh Latimer, […], London: […] Valentine Sims, published 1596, OCLC 55160734, folio 266, recto:

     [T]here be many things that pertaine to a Chriſtian man, and yet al thoſe things are conteined in this one thing, that is, loue: be lappeth vp al things in loue.

   • 1871, [anonymous], “That, Without Imperfect Meekness Coming before, It is Impossible for a Sinner to Come to the Perfect Virtue of Meekness”, in Henry Collins, editor, The Divine Cloud, […], London; Dublin: Thomas Richardson and Son […]; New York, N.Y.: Henry H. Richardson and Co., OCLC 4471493, page 55:

     And it may be, if thou knewest not which were perfect meekness, thou wouldst imagine, when thou hadst a little knowledge and feeling of this, that I call imperfect meekenss, that thou hadst almost gotten perfect meekness; and so wouldst deceive thyself, weening that thou wert full meek, when thou wert indeed all belapped in foul stinking pride.

     Modernized from a late-14th-century text.

   • 1891 November, B. H. Spring, “Dressing the Baby the First Six Months”, in Leroy M[ilton] Yale, Marion Harland, editors, Babyhood: The Mother’s Nursery Guide, Devoted to the Care of Children, volume VII, number 84, New York, N.Y.; London: Babyhood Publishing Company, OCLC 8488416, page 386, column 1:

     Following the traditions of my elders and much of the advice which is generally so freely offered to young mothers, I fashioned skirts with bands so wide and cumbersome, so much belapped and pinned, as to reduce the unfortunate babe to semblance of a small mummy.

関連する語

• lap
• umbelap

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