ravinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapīna (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).

発音

• enPR: răvʹən, IPA: /ˈɹævən/
• 韻: -ævən

動詞

ravin (third-person singular simple present ravins, present participle ravining, simple past and past participle ravined)

1. (obsolete) To dine or feast upon plunder or goods seized by violence.
   • 1908, “The Seven Against Thebes”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 124:

     Now, if ye hear the bruit of death or wounds,
     Give not yourselves o'ermuch to shriek and scream,
     For Ares ravins upon human flesh.

派生語

• ravin down

名詞

ravin (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):

     Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
     With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

形容詞

ravin (comparative more ravin, superlative most ravin)

1. (obsolete) Ravenous.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 117:

     Better 'twere
     I met the ravin lion when he roared
     With sharp constraint of hunger;

Further reading

• “ravin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• -navir, Arvin, Narvi, Vanir, invar