certesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsɜː.tɪz/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈsɝ.tiz/
• Homophone: Surtees
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)tiz

副詞

certes (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Certainly, indeed.

   Synonyms: of course, truly, verily

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:

     [F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]

   • 1845, Herman Melville, Omoo:

     This was very unpleasant, at least to myself; though, certes, it did not prey upon the minds of the others.

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     Here, certes, was no lost soul, but one who had gone joyfully to meet her Lord.

アナグラム

• Cretes, erects, resect, secret, terces

語源

Borrowed from Old French certes.

副詞

certes

1. certainly; indeed; of course
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio cvi, verso, column 1:

     Of the hinder part of her buttockes it is ful horrible for to ſe, for certes in that parte of her body there as they purge her ſtynkynge ordure, that foul partie ſhew they to yͤ people proudly in diſpite of honeſtie, which honeſtie that Jeſu Christ and hys frendes obſerued to ſhewe in her life.

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動詞

certēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of certō

アナグラム

• Cretes