dintとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 dint, dent, dünt, from 古期英語 dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to strike, hit”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”). Doublet of dent.

別の表記

• dunt

名詞

dint (countable and uncountable, plural dints)

1. Especially in by dint of: force, power.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity

   • 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XVIII:

     It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.

2. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
   • 1560 April 13 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Virgil, “The Nynth Boke”, in Thomas Phaer, transl., The Nyne Fyrst Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgil Converted into Englishe Vearse […], with So Muche of the Tenthe Booke, as since His Death coulde be Founde in Vnperfit Papers at His House in Kilgarran Forest in Penbroke Shyre, London: […] Rouland Hall, for Nicholas Englande, published 1562, →OCLC, signatures Ee.i., recto – Ee.i., verso:

     [D]epe wͭ dynt the ſword enforced furſt / had ranſakt through his ribs ⁊ ſwete whyte breſt at once had burſt.

   • 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 10”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     His hands had made a dint, and hurt his maid; / Explored her limb by limb, and feared to find / So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind.

   • 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VI), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC:

     [A]nd read the naked shield, […] Of every dint a sword had beaten in it, / And every scratch a lance had made upon it

3. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]

   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Eleuenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 31:

     Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.

派生語

• by dint of
• dintless

語源 2

From 中期英語 dinten, from the noun. Compare Old Norse dynta.

別の表記

• dunt

動詞

dint (third-person singular simple present dints, present participle dinting, simple past and past participle dinted)

1. To dent.
   • 1854, W. Harrison Ainsworth, The Star-Chamber, Volume 2‎:

     Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.

   • 1915, Jeffery Farnol, Beltane The Smith‎:

     And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!

派生語

語源 3

短縮形

dint

1. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.

参照

アナグラム

• NDTI, idn't, tind

別の表記

• dent, dente, dinnt, dont, dount, dunt, dynt, dynte

語源

From 古期英語 dynt, from Proto-West Germanic *dunti, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz.

発音

• IPA: /dint/, /dɛnt/, /dunt/

名詞

dint (plural dintes or (early) dinten)

1. The landing of a weapon; a blow or stroke.
   • a. 1375, Gawain Poet, Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt, page 118r, lines 2110–2117:

     Forþy I ſay þe, as ſoþe as ȝe in ſadel ſitte, / Com ȝe þere, ȝe be kylled, may þe knyȝt rede, / Trawe ȝe me þat trwely, þaȝ ȝe had twenty lyues / to ſpende. / He hatz wonyd here ful ȝore / On bent much baret bende / Aȝayn his dyntez ſore / Ȝe may not yow defende

     So I say to you, as sure as you sit in your saddle: / If you come there, you'll be killed if he wills, / trust me about that truly, like you had twenty lives / to spend. / He has lived here a long time; / when he pulls his bow, much conflict begins. / Against his powerful blows, / you won't be able to defend yourself.

2. (by extension) Warfare, battle; the use of weaponry.
3. The strike, landing or force of a tool or other item hitting something.
4. The striking or noise of thunder; a thunderclap.
5. (rare) A strike with one's limbs or body.
6. (rare) An injury resulting from a weapon's impact.

派生語

• dinten

派生した語

• English: dent, dint, dunt
• Scots: dunt, dont, dynt, dint, dent

Further reading

• “dint, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2019.

短縮形

di'n't

1. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.

アナグラム

• NDTI, idn't, tind

短縮形

din't

1. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.

アナグラム

• NDTI, idn't, tind