greaveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: grēv, IPA: /ɡɹiːv/
• Homophone: grieve
• 韻: -iːv

語源 1

From 中期英語 greve, from 古期英語 grǣfe, grǣfa (“bush, bramble, grove, thicket, copse, brush-wood (for burning), fuel”), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“ditch, hole”).

Cognate with Scots greve, greave (“grove”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“twig”), of unknown origin, whence Old Norse grein (“branch, bough”). Closely related to 古期英語 grāf, grāfa (“grove”). See grove.

名詞

greave (plural greaves)

1. (obsolete) A bush; a tree; a grove.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     she fled into that covert greave

2. (obsolete) A bough; a branch.

語源 2

From 中期英語 greve, greyve, from 古期英語 grǣfa, grēfa (“pit, cave, hole, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *grēbō, an ablaut variant of to *grōbō (“pit, ditch”) (whence doublet of groove) (Can this etymology be sourced?), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with North Frisian groop (“pit, sewer, gutter”), Dutch groef (“pit, hole, gutter”), German Grube (“pit, hole”), Icelandic gröf (“pit, grave”). Also related to grave.

名詞

greave (plural greaves)

1. (obsolete) A ditch or trench.

語源 3

From 中期英語 greve, grayve, from Old French greve (“shin”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Egyptian Arabic جورب (“stocking, leg cover”). Watkins suggests a connection with greve (“part in the hair”), due to the resemblance of the medial ridge to a part in the hair, from graver (“to part (the hair); engrave”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *graban (“to engrave”); if so, related to Etymology 2 above.

名詞

greave (plural greaves)

1. (historical) A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:

     And through the stained windows bright, / From o'er the red-tiled eaves, / The sunlight blazed with colored light / On golden helms and greaves.

   • 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC:

     Then he cast off his breast-plate, thigh pieces, and greaves, while Alleyne followed his example.

別の表記

• greeve

同意語

• cnemid

派生語

• greaved

語源 4

Back-formation from greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”).

動詞

greave (third-person singular simple present greaves, present participle greaving, simple past and past participle greaved)

1. (nautical, transitive) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

参考

• greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”)

参照

アナグラム

• regave