hancredとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• hancrǣd

語源

hana (“rooster”) +‎ *crēd

発音

• IPA: /ˈxɑnˌkreːd/, [ˈhɑnˌkreːd]

名詞

hancrēd m

1. (historical) the period of the early morning when roosters begin to crow; the wee hours of morning
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCXCV Hēr wæs sē mōna āþȳstrod betwux hancrēd ⁊ dagunge on V Kƚ Aprilis. ⁊ Eard[wulf] feng tō Norþanhymbra cynedōme on II Iđ Maĩ., and hē wæs syððan ġebletsod ⁊ his cynestōle āhafen on VII Kƚ Iunii on Eoforwīc frām Ēanbalde arċebisċop, ⁊ Æþelberhte ⁊ Hiġebalde ⁊ Badwulfe [bisċeopas].

     Year 795 In this year the moon was obscured between the cock's crow and dawn on the fifth of April. And Eardwulf became king of Northumbria on the second of May, and then on the seventh of June his throne was raised and he was blessed in York by Archbishop Eanbald and Bishops Aethelbright, Higebald, and Badwulf.

使用する際の注意点

In Bede and others, this terms refers to a particular period of night following midniht (midnight) and before the first light of dawn.

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

上位語

• niht

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hancrēd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• "Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy", p. 6, in Popular Treatises on Science Written during the Middle Ages (1841), London: Historical Society of Science.