rare

• adj. 珍しい；半熟；乏しい
• adv.非常に；非常に
• vi. 後ろ足で立つ；望む

ラテン語のrarus（まばらな、薄い、ゆるい）から、PIE*ere（分ける、網を張る）から、網膜のretina（網目状）と語源的には同じ。 rare（まれな、まれな）から派生。

rare

rare: Rare ‘uncommon’ [15] and rare ‘underdone’ [17] are not the same word. The former was borrowed from Latin rārus, which originally signified ‘having a loose texture, widely separated’ – hence ‘scarce’. It is not known what its ultimate source is. The latter is an alteration of the now obsolete rear ‘underdone’ (originally used mainly of eggs: ‘They had at their dinner rear eggs’, Book of the knight of the tower 1450), which goes back to Old English hrēr – again of unknown origin.

rare (adj.1)

"unusual," late 14c., "thin, airy, porous;" mid-15c., "few in number and widely separated, sparsely distributed, seldom found;" from Old French rere "sparse" (14c.), from Latin rarus "thinly sown, having a loose texture; not thick; having intervals between, full of empty spaces," from PIE *ra-ro-, from root *ere- "to separate; adjoin" (cognates: Sanskrit rte "besides, except," viralah "distant, tight, rare;" Old Church Slavonic rediku "rare," Old Hittite arha? "border," Lithuanian irti "to be dissolved"). "Few in number," hence, "unusual." Related: Rareness. In chemistry, rare earth is from 1818.

rare (adj.2)

"undercooked," 1650s, variant of Middle English rere, from Old English hrere "lightly cooked," probably related to hreran "to stir, move, shake, agitate," from Proto-Germanic *hrorjan (cognates: Old Frisian hrera "to stir, move," Old Saxon hrorian, Dutch roeren, German rühren, Old Norse hroera), from PIE base *kere- "to mix, confuse; cook" (cognates: Greek kera- "to mix," krasis "mixture"). Originally of eggs, not recorded in reference to meat until 1784, and according to OED, in this sense "formerly often regarded as an Americanism, although it was current in many English dialects ...."

rare (v.)

"rise up," 1833, dialectal variant of rear (v.1). Sense of "eager" (in raring to go) first recorded 1909. Related: Rared; raring.

1. It remained an exceptionally rare book until it was reprinted in 1918.

は1918年に再版されるまで、非常に珍しい本だった。

2.It was a rare pleasure to see him in action.

彼のプレーを見るのは楽しみです。

3.As we approached the summit were vouchsafed a rare vision.

頂上に近づいた時、私たちは幸運にもめったに見られない光景を見た。

4. Rare birds preen themselves right in front of your camera.

レンズの前で羽をとかす鳥は少ない。

5.Ferris has a rare ability to record her observations on paper.

フェリスは自分の観察結果を記録する強い能力を持っている。