halterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈhɔltɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɒltə/, /ˈhɔːltə/
• 韻: -ɔːltə(ɹ), -ɒltə(ɹ)

語源 1

From 中期英語 halter, helter, helfter, from 古期英語 hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), equivalent to half- +‎ -ter.

Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”).

別の表記

• helter (obsolete, Northern England)

名詞

halter (plural halters)

1. A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.

   Synonyms: headstall, headpiece, (British) headcollar

2. A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.

   Synonyms: collar; see also Thesaurus:hangman's noose

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     And Crates said, that love was cured with hunger, if not by time; and in him that liked not these two meanes, by the halter [translating hart].

   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

     “ […] No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […].”

3. A halter top.

派生語

動詞

halter (third-person singular simple present halters, present participle haltering, simple past and past participle haltered)

1. (transitive) To place a halter on.

   What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?

派生語

• halter up

語源 2

From halt +‎ -er.

名詞

halter (plural halters)

1. One who halts or limps; a cripple.

語源 3

名詞

halter (plural halteres)

1. Alternative form of haltere.

アナグラム

• relath, Hartel, lather, Hartle, thaler, Thaler, Thrale, rathel

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 hælftre, hælfter, from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhaltər/, /ˈhɛltər/, /ˈhaltrə/

名詞

halter (plural haltres)

1. A halter; horse headgear lacking a bit.
2. (rare) A rope tied in a noose for hanging.
3. (rare) The binding contract of marriage.

派生した語

• English: halter
• Scots: helter, heltir, hilter

参照

• “halter, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 February 2019.