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発音

• IPA: /ˈstiːvən/, /ˈsteɪvən/, /ˈstɛvən/‚ [ˈstiːvn̩], [ˈsteɪ̯vn̩], [ˈstɛvn̩]
• 韻: -iːvən, -ɛvən

語源 1

From 中期英語 steven (“voice, command, constitution”), from 古期英語 stefn (“voice”), from Proto-West Germanic *stebnu, from Proto-Germanic *stebnō (“voice”), earlier *stemnā, derived from Proto-Indo-European *stómn̥ (“mouth, muzzle; (originally) hole?”). Cognate with Old Frisian stifne, stemme (“voice”), Old Saxon stemna (“voice”), Dutch stem, Old High German stimma, stimna (“voice”) (German Stimme), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌱𐌽𐌰 (stibna, “voice”), and more distantly Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”), Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬥 (staman, “maw”), and possibly Hittite 𒅖𒋫𒈪𒈾𒀸 (iš-ta-mi-na-aš /⁠stāminas⁠/, “ear”). See also stevvon. Displaced by voice.

名詞

steven (plural stevens)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) Voice, especially when loud or strong.
   • 1566, William Addlington, translator, The Golden Asse, Apuleius

     […] whereby the little birds weening that the spring time had bin come, did chirp and sing in their steven melodiously […]

   • 17th c., Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne:

     When Little John heard his master speake, / Well knew he it was his steven.

   • a. 1801, Richard Gall, Poems & Songs (1819) 93:

     Then could her Sangsters loud their steven raise.

   • 1826, James Hogg, Queen Hynde vi, in Poems (1865) 262:

     All nature roar'd in one dire steven; Heaven cried to earth, and earth to heaven.

   • 1865, William Stott Banks, List Provinc. Words Wakefield‎:

     Thah's a rare stevven, lad.

   • 1880, Sidney Lanier, Sir Thomas Malory, Alfred Kappes, The Boy's King Arthur:

     Then Sir Launcelot said with dreary steeven [voice], “Sir bishop, I pray you give to me all my rights that longeth to a Christian man.”

   • a. 1886, Eric Mackay, Love Lett. Violinist (1895) 197:

     He […] lifted up his steven To keep the bulwarks of his faith secure.

   • 2019, James Meek, To Calais, In Ordinary Time:

     Thomas's steven roughened and rose.

2. (obsolete) A request, petition, prayer, or command.
   • a. 1500, "Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 6":

     To thee, lady, y make my moon; I praie thee heere my steuen.

   • 1589, Thomas Lodge, Scillaes Metamorphosis E 2‎:

     Father of light […] Bring to effect this my desired steauen.

   • 1597, Thomas Middleton, Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. xviii. xiv–xvi. sig. Y3v‎:

     And brought thy precept? as a burning steauen, Reaching from heauen to earth, from earth to heauen.

派生語

• even steven

関連する語

• stevvon
• stoma

語源 2

From 中期英語 steven (“appointment”), from 古期英語 stefn (“a time, turn, tour of duty”), from Proto-Germanic *stabnijaz, *stabnijô (“fixed time”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“a stake, post; to support, stamp, insist, become angry”). Cognate with Middle Low German stevene (“a court appointment”), Old Norse stefna (“appointment, meeting”). More at staff.

名詞

steven (plural stevens)

1. (obsolete) A time, occasion.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VIII:

     And that same nyght that the steavyn was sette betwyxte Segwarydes wyff and Sir Trystrames, so Kynge Marke armed and made hym redy [...].

   • 1788, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere, with the Notes of all the various Commentators:

     I should choose to read "at this dull season," rather than this dull steven, [...]— John Monck Mason.

   • 1894, Reginald Brimley Johnson, “Robin Hood”, in Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, page 167:

     Let us some masteries make,
     And we will walk in the woods even;
     We may chance meet with Robin Hood
     Here at some unset steven.

Further reading

• “steven”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “steven”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “steven”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• events

別の表記

• stevin, steiven, stephene, steavene, steme, stemne, steuen

名詞

steven (plural stevens)

1. The voice of a human being; a voice.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XXI:

     Soo wythin syx wekye after syr Launcelot fyl seek and laye in his bedde & thenne he sente for the bysshop that there was heremyte and al his trewe felowes / Than Syr Launcelot sayd wyth drery steuen / syr bysshop I praye you gyue to me al my ryghtes that longeth to a chrysten man.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. A vocal sound.
3. sound; tonal pattern.
4. Manner of speaking.

語源 2

From 古期英語 stefn (“appointed time”).

別の表記

• stemne
• stevene

名詞

steven

1. time, set time, appointment
   • c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:

     It is ful fair a man to bere hym euene, / For al day meeten men at vnset steuene.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. period of time, occasion
   • 1398, John Trevisa, trans. Bartholomaeus, De Proprietatibus Rerum:

   Suche stenche is continual and comeþ nouȝt by stemnes.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)