erstとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 erste, from 古期英語 ǣresta (“first”), from Proto-West Germanic *airist (“earliest, first”), equivalent to ere +‎ -est. Cognate with North Frisian iarst, iáárs, jarst, jest (“first”), West Frisian earst (“first”), Dutch eerste (“first”), German erste (“first”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɝst/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɜːst/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)st

形容詞

erst (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) First.

副詞

erst (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) First of all, before (some other specified thing).
   • 1567, Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses, book 2, line 691:

     Consider what I erst have been and what thou seest me now:

2. (obsolete) Sooner (than); before.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     Thenne he sente the varlet ageyne and bad hym telle Kyng Mark that I wille come as soone as I am hole / for erste I maye doo hym noo good
     "Then he sent the varlet again, and bade him: Tell King Mark that I will come as soon as I am whole, for erst I may do him no good. "

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (archaic, poetic) Formerly, once, erstwhile.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
     Which erst from heat did canopy the herd

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:erst.

派生語

• erstwhile

アナグラム

• Rest., 'rest, rest., REST, -ster, ERTs, rets, rest, tres, RETs, TERs, SERT, estr-, -estr-