Britとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /bɹɪt/
• 韻: -ɪt

接頭辞

Brit-

1. British

   Britart, Britpop

派生語

アナグラム

• trib, Trib, BIRT, trib., Birt, birt

語源 1

From 中期英語 brytten, brutten, from 古期英語 brittian, bryttian (“to divide, dispense, distribute, rule over, possess, enjoy the use of”), from Proto-Germanic *brutjaną (“to break, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *breutaną (“to destroy, crush, break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd- (“to break”). Cognate with Icelandic brytja (“to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter”), Swedish bryta (“to break, fracture, cut off”), Danish bryde (“to break”), and outside the Germanic family with Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”). Related to 古期英語 brytta (“dispenser, giver, author, governor, prince”), 古期英語 brēotan (“to break in pieces, hew down, demolish, destroy, kill”).

別の表記

• britt
• brite (dialectal)

動詞

brit (third-person singular simple present brits, present participle britting, simple past and past participle britted)

1. (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
2. (transitive) To bruise; indent.
3. (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
4. (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.

派生語

• britten
• brittle

語源 2

Probably from 中期英語 bret or birt, applied to a different kind of fish. See bret.

別の表記

• britt

名詞

brit (plural brit)

1. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
2. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.

語源 3

Short for brit milah.

別の表記

• bris

名詞

brit (plural brits)

1. brit milah

アナグラム

• trib, Trib, BIRT, trib., Birt, birt