arointとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /əˈɹɔɪnt/
• 韻: -ɔɪnt

動詞

aroint (third-person singular simple present aroints, present participle arointing, simple past and past participle arointed)

1. (archaic, imperative, transitive) avaunt; begone; go away; leave!
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     And aroynt thee Witch, aroynt thee.

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Aroynt thee, Witch, the rumpe-fed Ronyon cryes.

2. (archaic) to dispel; to send away.
   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To Flush, My Dog:

     Whiskered cats arointed flee,
     Sturdy stoppers keep from thee
     Cologne distillations.

使用する際の注意点

• Originally seems to be associated directly with supernatural beings, especially witches, however later on milkmaids employed an aphetic, dialectal form of the term in reference to their herds of cattle (see rynt).

アナグラム

• Natori, traino, torani, Torain, Tanori, Triano, -inator, Troian, Torian, Tirano, ration, Onrait, Nortia