Absintheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

• (wormwood; figuratively bitterness, sorrow): From 中期英語 absinthe.
• (liquor): From Modern French absinthe.

Both from Middle French absinthe, from Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion, “wormwood”). Doublet of absinthium.

発音

• IPA: /ˈæb.sɪnθ/, /ˈæb.sænθ/, /ˈæb.sæ̃θ/

名詞

absinthe (countable and uncountable, plural absinthes)

1. The herb absinthium Artemisia absinthium (grande wormwood); essence of wormwood. [from 1350–1470]
2. (figurative) Bitterness; sorrow. [from 1350–1470]
3. A distilled, highly alcoholic, anise-flavored liquor originally made from grande wormwood, anise, and other herbs. [from mid 19 c.]

   Synonym: (colloquial) green fairy

   • 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 63:

     Let us go out and drink to the very good health of Monsieur Tarzan in some of old Plancon’s unparalleled absinth; not forgetting that the Count de Coude is one of the best swordsmen in Paris, and by far the best shot in all France.

   • 2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, The Little Green Book of Absinthe‎, Penguin, →ISBN:

     Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.

4. A moderate yellow green. [from late 19 c.]
   absinthe green:  

   Synonym: absinthe green

5. (US) Sagebrush.

使用する際の注意点

• (wormwood): Absinth is the preferred spelling of this sense only.

派生語

参照

Further reading

• absinthe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

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