judithとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”). Doublet of Yehudit.

発音

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒuːdɪθ/ enPR: jo͞o'dəth
• 韻: -uːdɪθ

固有名詞

Judith

1. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • 1833 The New Monthly Magazine, E. Littell, Vol. 1, January-June 1833, page 211("On Grand Christian Names"):

     The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith, may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele, Adriane, or any other such "fanciful and romantic" names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane.

2. A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
3. (biblical) The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judith 13:2,8:
     :

     And Judith was left along in the tent, and Holofernes lying along upon his bed: for he was filled with wine. --- And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him.

4. (biblical) A wife of Esau.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 26:34-35:
     :

     And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

派生語

• Judith Basin County

関連する語

• Jud.
• pet forms: Judie, Judy, Jodi, Jodie, Jody

派生した語

• → Cebuano: Judith

参考

• Judah
• Jude