f areとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 fare, from a merger of 古期英語 fær (“journey, road”) and faru (“journey, companions, baggage”), from Proto-Germanic *farą and *farō (“journey, fare”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).

名詞

fare (countable and uncountable, plural fares)

1. (obsolete) A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:journey

   thoroughfare

2. (countable) Money paid for a transport ticket.

   Synonym: transportation

   train fare

   bus fare

   taxi fare

3. (countable) A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
4. (uncountable) Food and drink.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     “ […] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”

   • 1958 July, R. K. Kirkland, “Into the Mountains on the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 452:

     Bell pushes labelled "Steward" proved to be more than ornamental, even though gassy mineral waters may not be the ideal fare for a narrow-gauge journey.

5. (uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure.

   The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.

   Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.

6. (countable, UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostitute's client

派生語

参照

• Eric Partridge (2007), “fare”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 244.

語源 2

From 中期英語 faren, from 古期英語 faran (“to travel, journey”), from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).

Cognate with West Frisian farre, Dutch varen (“to sail”), German fahren (“to travel”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål fare, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic fara (“to go”) and Swedish fara (“to travel”).

動詞

fare (third-person singular simple present fares, present participle faring, simple past fared, past participle fared or (archaic) faren)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.

   Behold! A knight fares forth.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     […] And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 42:

     I know that this was Life,—the track
     ⁠Whereon with equal feet we fared;
     ⁠And then, as now, the day prepared
     The daily burden for the back.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 17:

     Then he came down rejoicing and said, "I have seen what seemeth to be a city as 'twere a pigeon." Hereat we rejoiced and, ere an hour of the day had passed, the buildings showed plain in the offing and we asked the Captain, "What is the name of yonder city?" and he answered "By Allah I wot not, for I never saw it before and never sailed these seas in my life: but, since our troubles have ended in safety, remains for you only to land their with your merchandise and, if you find selling profitable, sell and make your market of what is there; and if not, we will rest here two days and provision ourselves and fare away.

2. (intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.

   How did you fare in the exam?

   • 1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill:

     So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.

   • 1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8:

     There are many discomforting gaps in statistics about the book trades generally, but the reprint sector fares worst—it has no statistical summary or trend reports based on factual evidence.

   • 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:

     Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wreccker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:

     While long-distance and commuter rail travel still fared well, train travel to seaside resorts was perhaps inevitably falling away.

3. (intransitive, archaic) To eat, dine.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:19:

     There was a certain rich man which […] fared sumptuously every day.

4. (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.

   We shall see how it will fare with him.

   • 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 3:

     So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick‎, chapter 23:

     Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land.

5. (intransitive) To move along; proceed; progress; advance

   We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.

   • 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown‎:

     He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying that he must eat sparingly and fare hard, as became a soldier or one who was fitting himself for difficult enterprises, a life of exposure.

派生語

アナグラム

• FERA, Fear, Fera, Rafe, fear, reaf

語源 1

Originally two distinct nouns:

• 古期英語 faru, from Proto-West Germanic *faru, from Proto-Germanic *farō.
• 古期英語 fær, from Proto-West Germanic *far, from Proto-Germanic *farą.

別の表記

• far, phare, vare
• fære, væræ (Early Middle English)

発音

• IPA: /ˈfaːr(ə)/

名詞

fare (uncountable)

1. A journey, course, or travel.
   • p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

     Þu myhteſ faren al a dæiſ fare ſculdeſt thu neure finden man in tun ſittende · ne land tiled.

     You could go a whole day's journey, but you'd never find anyone in town or any tilled fields.

2. A group on a journey.
3. A proceeding or occurrence:
   1. Behaviour or appearance.
   2. Condition or fortune.
   3. A commotion or disturbance.
4. Provisions, especially food.
5. (rare) A path or way.

派生語

• yvel fare

関連する語

• chaffare
• feldefare
• heyfre

派生した語

• English: fare
• Scots: fare
• Yola: gudeváre

参照

• “fāre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Fare, sb.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 73, column 3.

語源 2

動詞

fare

1. alternative form of faren

語源 1

動詞

fāre

1. second-person singular present active indicative/imperative of for

語源 2

動詞

fāre

1. (Late Latin) present active infinitive of faciō

参照

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “facĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 353