heveneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• efne, even, evne, heaven, hefne, heoven, heovene, heven, hevyn, hewn, hewne
• hæfene, hæfne, hæven, heffne, heofen, heofne, heofon, hoven (Early Middle English)
• heeven, hefen, heiven, heivin, hevin, hewuyn, heyven, hewen, hewyn (Northern)
• hoevene (Herebert)

発音

• IPA: /ˈhɛv(ə)nə/, /ˈhɛːvən/, /ˈhɛvən/

固有名詞

hevene (genitive singular hevenes or hevene)

1. Heaven; a divine realm or positive afterlife.
   • c. 1379, Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame, section 164:

     Venus...Doun fro the heven gan descende.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 1382, Wycliffe's Bible, Jeremiah 7:18:

     Thei make sweete cakis to the quen of heuene [Astarte]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

関連する語

• hevenely
• heveneriche

派生した語

• English: heaven, Heaven
• Scots: heiven, Heiven
• Yola: heaaven, heoven

参照

• “hē̆ven, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

名詞

hevene (plural hevenes or (early) hevenen, genitive singular hevenes or hevene)

1. The heavens; the cosmos surrounding the Earth, especially:
   1. (in medieval cosmology) A layer of the cosmos; one of the celestial spheres.
   2. The entirety of the sky; the atmosphere.
      • c. 1382, Wycliffe's Bible, Job 35:11:

        The bestis of the erthe...the foulis of heuene

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   3. Outer space; the abode of the stars.
2. (figuratively) A serene or heavenly locale or experience.
   • c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, II l 826:

     It an heuene was hire voys to here.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (figuratively, rare) A serene or heavenly person.

語形変化

派生した語

• English: Heaven
• Scots: heiven
• Yola: heaaven, heoven

参照

• “hē̆ven, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

動詞

hevene

1. (Southern) alternative form of heven (“to lift”)