dis-easeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (uneasiness): dis-ease

語源

From 中期英語 disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, disaise, from Old French desaise, from des- + aise. Displaced native 中期英語 adle, audle (“disease”) (from 古期英語 ādl (“disease, sickness”), see adle), 中期英語 cothe, coathe (“disease”) (from 古期英語 coþu (“disease”), see coath). By surface analysis, dis- +‎ ease.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dĭ-zēzʹ IPA: /dɪˈziːz/
• (General American) IPA: /dɪˈziz/, /dəˈziz/
• (General Australian) IPA: /dɪˈziːz/, [dɪˈzɪi̯z]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /dəˈziːz/
• ハイフネーション: dis‧ease
• 韻: -iːz

名詞

disease (countable and uncountable, plural diseases)

1. (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.

   The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 272, column 2:

     […] diſeaſes deſperate growne,
     By deſperate appliance are releeued,
     Or not at all.

   • November 22, 1787, James Madison Jr., Federalist No. 10

     The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished; […]

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, →OL:

     […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes […] And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.

   • 2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:

     Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.

2. (figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
   • 1955, The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7:

     War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.

3. A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 422:
   • c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     To ſhield thee from diſeaſes of the world, […]

同意語

• See Thesaurus:disease § Synonyms

下位語

• See Thesaurus:disease § Hyponyms

派生語

派生した語

• Tok Pisin: disis

動詞

disease (third-person singular simple present diseases, present participle diseasing, simple past and past participle diseased)

1. (obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke viij:[49], folio lxxxix, recto:

     Whyll he yett ſpeake
     there cam won from the rulers off the ſynagogis houſſe
     which ſayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed
     diſeaſe not the maſter.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 208:

     […] mote he ſoft himſelfe appeaſe,
     And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth;
     His double burden did him ſore diſeaſe.

2. To infect with a disease.

参照

• “disease”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “disease”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Seaside, seaside