mistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /mɪst/
• 韻: -ɪst
• Homophone: missed

語源 1

The noun is from 中期英語 mist, from 古期英語 mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).

The verb is from 中期英語 misten, from 古期英語 mistian.

名詞

mist (countable and uncountable, plural mists)

1. (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)

   Synonym: brume

   It was difficult to see through the morning mist.

2. (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.

   There was an oily mist on the lens.

3. (figurative) Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     His passion cast a mist before his sense.

   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Hooktail Castle:

     Alas, I do not have the strength to continue writing. Already, mist veils my eyes.

下位語

• camanchaca
• Scotch mist

派生語

動詞

mist (third-person singular simple present mists, present participle misting, simple past and past participle misted)

1. (intransitive) To form mist.

   It's misting this morning.

2. (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.

   I mist my tropical plants every morning.

3. (intransitive) To rain in very fine droplets.
   • 1996, Don McCabe, Word Families in Sentence Context, AVKO Foundation, →ISBN, page 235:

     ... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain.

   • 2013 April 2, Don Pendleton, Nuclear Intent, Gold Eagle, →ISBN, page 238:

     On this particular early morning , with a bitter cold rain misting down, Seminov was reaching the end of his endurance.

   • 2023 November 20, Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series: The Power of Positive: 101 Inspirational Stories about Changing Your Life through Positive Thinking, Jaico Publishing House, →ISBN, page 25:

     ... rain misting outside from thick clouds.

4. (transitive) To cover with a mist.

   The lens was misted.

   • 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 V, scene iii]:

     her breath will mist or staine the stone

5. (transitive, of the eyes) To be covered by tears.

   My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

6. (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.

派生語

語源 2

動詞

mist

1. (obsolete) past of miss
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     you shall be mist at Court

アナグラム

• ISTM, ITSM, Smit, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, smit, stim

発音

• IPA: /mist/

名詞

mist m

1. fog
2. mist

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

• misthelm

派生した語

• Middle English: mist
  • Scots: mist
  • English: mist

名詞

mist

1. alternative form of myst (“mist”)

語源 2

名詞

mist

1. alternative form of myst (“mysteries”)