Caxtonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Caxton.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkæk.stən/
• 韻: -ækstən

固有名詞

Caxton

1. A surname.
2. (printing) A kind of printing-type in imitation of William Caxton's.
3. A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3058).

派生語

• Caxtonian

名詞

Caxton (plural Caxtons)

1. Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.
   • 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 37:

     I recall vividly a bright summer morning, many years ago, when, in search of Caxtons, I entered the inner quadrangle of a certain wealthy College in one of our learned Universities.

   • 2011, Seymour De Ricci, English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts (1530-1930), page 43:

     This remarkable passion of the British nobility for editiones principes and Caxtons seems to have lasted but a couple of decades.

固有名詞

Caxton

1. a surname, equivalent to English Caxton
   • 1477, William Caxton, “Et sic est finis”, in The Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, Westminster, London: William Caxton, folio 74, recto:

     Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophres enprynted. by me william Caxton at westmestre the yere of our lord .M.CCCC.Lxx vij.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

派生した語

• English: Caxton

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