milesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

miles

1. plural of mile
2. (informal) A great distance in space or time.

   His final shot missed the bullseye by miles.

   From the top of the hill you can see for miles.

   No need to hurry. The deadline is miles away.

副詞

miles (not comparable)

1. much; a lot (used to emphasise a comparative)

   Her new paintings are miles better than her older ones.

   • 1972, Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Knopf, page 129:

     The recipe was miles too strong.

アナグラム

• Imels, Liems, Selim, limes, milse, misle, slime, smile

語源

Unknown; possibly of Etruscan origin. The suffix seems similar to that of comes, eques, pedes, and veles, but the origin of the mīl- is obscure. A connection to mīlia (“thousands”), perhaps as "person going by the thousand(s)", is difficult to confidently motivate semantically.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmiː.ɫɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmiː.les]

名詞

mīles m or f (genitive mīlitis); third declension

1. (military) A soldier.

   mīles gregārius ― a private (lit., a "common soldier")

2. (Medieval Latin) A knight.
3. A man in boardgames such as ludus latrunculi and chess.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参考

参照

Further reading

• “miles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “miles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "miles", 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)
• “miles”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to fire with courage: animos militum accendere
    
  • to give furlough, leave of absence to soldiers: commeatum militibus dare (opp. petere)
    
  • veterans; experienced troops: vetus miles, veteranus miles
    
  • a soldier lightly armed, ready for battle: expeditus (opp. impeditus) miles
    
  • to pay the troops: stipendium dare, numerare, persolvere militibus
    
  • to encourage, embolden the soldiery: animos militum confirmare (B. G. 5. 49)
    
  • (ambiguous) to levy troops: milites (exercitum) scribere, conscribere
    
  • (ambiguous) to compel communities to provide troops: imperare milites civitatibus
    
  • (ambiguous) to make soldiers take the military oath: milites sacramento rogare, adigere
    
  • (ambiguous) light infantry: milites levis armaturae
    
  • (ambiguous) soldiers collected in haste; irregulars: milites tumultuarii (opp. exercitus iustus) (Liv. 35. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) mercenary troops: milites mercennarii or exercitus conducticius
    
  • (ambiguous) to keep good discipline amongst one's men: milites disciplina coercere
    
  • (ambiguous) to keep good discipline amongst one's men: milites coercere et in officio continere (B. C. 1. 67. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to take the troops to their winter-quarters: milites in hibernis collocare, in hiberna deducere
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave troops to guard the camp: praesidio castris milites relinquere
    
  • (ambiguous) to harangue the soldiers: contionari apud milites (B. C. 1. 7)
    
  • (ambiguous) to harangue the soldiers: contionem habere apud milites
    
  • (ambiguous) to disembark troops: milites in terram, in terra exponere
    
• miles in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

アナグラム

• limes