gurgesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• gurge (obsolete outside heraldry)

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈɡɝd͡ʒiz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡɜːd͡ʒiːz/

名詞

gurges (plural gurges or gurgeses)

1. (rare) A whirlpool.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Wilyem Clark, Edgewise, Wilyem Clark, page 72:

     It was early—only ten p.m.—but already gurgeses of light and gales of sound frothed in unison to a familiar relentless heartbeat.

2. (heraldry) A series of typically four to six concentric annulets (in early heraldry, from at least the 1200s), or a spiralling line from the centre to the edge of the shield (in late heraldry); a stylized whirlpool.

   Synonym: gorges

   • 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 153:

     Argent, a gurges azure, is borne by GORGES, of Langford, Wilts., created a Baronet 1612. As the gurges (like the fountain) represents water, argent and azure are its proper tinctures.

   • 1894, British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, page 294:

     A shield of arms of early shape : three gurgeses (or roundles charged with a central pellet and two annulets concentric), two and one.

語源 2

From gurge +‎ -s.

名詞

gurges

1. plural of gurge

Further reading

• “gurges”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “gurges”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “gurges”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Gurges”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Rueggs, uggers

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɡʊr.ɡɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɡur.d͡ʒes]

名詞

gurges m (genitive gurgitis); third declension

1. whirlpool, eddy
2. gulf
3. abyss
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.591–592:

     Adsiliunt flūctūs, īmōque ā gurgite pontus vertitur, et cānās alveus haurit aquās.

     The waves leap up, the sea is churned from its lowest abyss, and the hull drinks the white waters. (trans. Anne and Peter Wiseman, 2011)

4. (poetic) the sea, waters, stream
5. (figurative) an insatiable craving; (of people) a spendthrift

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

• gurguliō

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “gurges”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gurges”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "gurges", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “gurges”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be drowned in the eddies: gurgitibus hauriri
    
• “gurges”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray