cryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

The verb is from 中期英語 crien (13th century), from Old French crier, from Vulgar Latin *crītāre, generally thought to derive from Classical Latin quirītāre (Proto-West Germanic *krītan has also been suggested as a source). The noun corresponds to 中期英語 cry, crie, from Old French cri, a deverbal of crier.

発音

• IPA: /kɹaɪ/
• Homophone: krai
• 韻: -aɪ

動詞

cry (third-person singular simple present cries, present participle crying, simple past and past participle cried)

1. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.

   That sad movie always makes me cry.

   • 2003, Sonic Team, Sonic Battle, Sega, published 2003, Game Boy Advance, level/area: Cream’s Story:

     - Emerl: “There’s nothing worse than making a girl cry!” That’s what Sonic said...

2. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I'll speak.

   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 3:

     [T]he Man put his fingers in his Ears, and ran on crying, Life, Life, Eternal Life: [...]

3. (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 27:46:

     And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
   • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Open House”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 3:

     My secrets cry aloud.
     I have no need for tongue.

5. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 147:9:

     the young ravens which cry

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     In a cowslip's bell I lie / There I couch when owls do cry.

6. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.

   Tonight I’ll cry myself to sleep.

7. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.

   to cry goods

   • 1652, Richard Crashaw, The Beginning of Heliodorus:

     Love is lost, and thus she cries him.

   • 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 137:

     “We're in luck. Loren Passerine, the finest auctioneer in the West, will be crying today.” “Will be what?” “We say an auctioneer ‘cries’ a sale,” Cohen said.

   • 1976, Stan Rogers, “Barrett's Privateers”, in Fogarty's Cove:

     Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town / (How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!) / For twenty brave men, all fishermen, who / Would make for him the Antelope's crew.

   1. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
      • 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi:

        I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.

Conjugation

同意語

• bawl
• blubber
• sob
• wail
• weep
• whimper
• See also Thesaurus:weep
• See also Thesaurus:shout

反意語

• laugh

派生語

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: krei

名詞

cry (plural cries)

1. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.

   After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.

2. A shout or scream.

   I heard a cry from afar.

3. Words shouted or screamed.

   a battle cry

4. A clamour or outcry.
   • 1812, Alexander Chalmers, The General Biographical Dictionary:

     His pupil, Maimonides, that he might not be under the necessity of violating the laws of friendship and gratitude, by joining the general cry against Averroes, left Corduba.

5. (collectively) A group of hounds.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     A cry more tunable / Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.

   • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, in Edward Hawkins, The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Vol. I, W. Baxter, J. Parker, G. B. Whittaker (publs., 1824) pages 124 to 126, lines 648 to 659.

     […] Before the gates there sat / On either side a formidable shape; / The one seem’d woman to the waste, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold / Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm’d / With mortal sting: about her middle round / A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark’d / With wide Cerberean mouths full loud and rung / A hideous peal; yet, when they list,would creep, / If ought disturb'd their noise, into her womb, / and kennel there, yet there still bark’d and howl’d, / Within unseen. […]

6. (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Would not this […] get me a fellowship in a cry of players?

7. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.

   "Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 86:

     But the shrill wild cry of the heron overpowered the cries of all the other birds, whom it seemed to terrify; they were silent the moment they heard it, and a silence followed which made the interruption doubly unpleasant.

8. A desperate or urgent request.
9. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     The cry goes that you shall marry her.

派生語

参考

• crocodile tears

参照

• Noah Webster (1828), “cry”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
• “cry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• CYR, RYC, Cyr., Cyr

別の表記

• cri, crie, crye, kri, krie, kry

発音

• IPA: /kriː/

名詞

cry (plural cries)

1. A shout or yell; a loud vocalisation:
   1. A call of distress or sorrow.
   2. A plea for help or justice.
2. An announcement or report:
   1. A proclamation or directive.
   2. A call for people; a summons.
3. (by extension) A military force; a troop.
4. The characteristic sound of an animal.
5. (rare) The sound of a horn or trumpet.

派生した語

• English: cry
• Scots: cry
• Yola: crie, cry

参照

• “crī(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

動詞

cry

1. alternative form of crien