mendicant
英 ['mendɪk(ə)nt]
美 ['mɛndɪkənt]
語源
托鉢乞食、托鉢僧。ラテン語のmendicare「乞う」、menda「欠陥」、「身体障害」、PIE* mend「欠陥」、「障害」に由来し、語源はamendと同じ。派生語源は乞食、托鉢僧。
英語の語源
- mendicant (adj.)
- late 14c., from Latin mendicantem (nominative mendicans) present participle of mendicare "to beg, ask alms," from mendicus "beggar," originally "cripple" (connection via cripples who must beg), from menda "fault, physical defect" (see mendacious). As an adjective from 1540s. Also in Middle English was mendinant (mid-14c.), from Old French mendinant, present participle of mendiner "to beg," from the same Latin source.
- mendicant (n.)
- "a beggar," mid-15c., from mendicant (adj.) or from Latin mendicantem (nominative mendicans), noun use of present participle of mendicare.
例文
- 1. He seemed not an ordinary mendicant .
- 彼は普通の乞食ではないようだ。
- 2.This dear little naked mendicant pretends to be utterly helpless.
- このかわいい裸の乞食は、全然役に立たないふりをしている。
- 3.A member of a usually mendicant Roman Catholic order.
- 鉢修会修士常化縁のローマカトリック教会員.
- 4.Then the mendicant did it.
- 続いて乞食が倒立した。
- 5.A fifth order，the Servites，founded in 1233，was acknowledged as mendicant order in 1424.
- 第五声令の下、servitesは、1233年に設立され、1424年に.
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