Breadとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: brĕd, IPA: /bɹɛd/
• (Early Modern) IPA: /brɛd/, /brɛːd/
• 韻: -ɛd
• Homophone: bred

語源 1

From 中期英語 bred, breed, from 古期英語 brēad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą (“bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”), from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰera- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two. Possibly a doublet of broa.

Eclipsed non-native 中期英語 payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”). In this sense, mostly replaced loaf, which had been the more common term in 古期英語 (see hlaf), a process which similarly occured in other languages such as German.

別の表記

• breade (obsolete)

名詞

bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)

1. (uncountable)
   1. A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

      Hyponyms: tack, biscuit

      1. (especially) Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.

         Coordinate terms: tack, biscuit

         We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.

         My mother used to send me for the bread.

         • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

           Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

   2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

      Synonym: staff of life

      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:11:

        Give us this day our daily bread.

2. (countable) Any variety of bread.

   Some breads are harder and drier than others.

3. (slang, US or Cockney) Money.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money

   • 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, pages 3–4:

     Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare.

   • 1967, “San Franciscan Nights”, in Winds of Change, performed by Eric Burdon and The Animals:

     […] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.

   • 1973, Billy Joel, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music), performed by Billy Joel:

     And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar / And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"

   • 2000, Darren Aronofsky, Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream, spoken by Tyrone:

     Hey, baby, I don't care if the motherfucker's growing hair just so long as we get our bread.

   • 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown‎, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

     Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.

使用する際の注意点

• loaf, slice, piece, hunk are some of the words used to count bread.

下位語

派生語

派生した語

動詞

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.

   breaded fish

派生語

• breaded (adjective)
• breading (noun)

参考

• loaf

語源 2

From 中期英語 brede (“breadth, width, extent”), from 古期英語 brǣdu (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄ (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).

名詞

bread (plural breads)

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.

派生語

• waybread

語源 3

Variant of braid, from 中期英語 breden, from 古期英語 brēdan, breġdan (“to braid”).

別の表記

• breathe, brede

動詞

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.

名詞

bread (plural breads)

1. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

参照

アナグラム

• Debra, Bader, Aberd, Breda, bared, Debar, beard, arbed, ardeb, Beard, debar

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *braud, from Proto-Germanic *braudą, whence also Old Frisian brād (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon brōd (German Low German Broot, Brot), Dutch brood, Old High German brōt (German Brot), Old Norse brauð and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).

発音

• IPA: /bræ͜ɑːd/
• 韻: -ēad

名詞

brēad n

1. bit, piece, morsel, crumb
2. bread (foodstuff)

語形変化

同意語

• (bread): hlāf

派生語

• bēobrēad
• picgbrēad

派生した語

• Middle English: bred, bredd, brede, breed, breede, breid, brid, bread, bræd (Early Middle English), bryad, bryead (Kent)
  • English: bread (see there for further descendants)
  • English: (West Yorkshire) breead
  • Geordie: breed
  • Scots: breid
  • Yola: breed