reinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 rein, reyne, from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”). Compare modern French rêne.

Displaced native 古期英語 brīdel (“bridle, rein”), 古期英語 wealdleþer, ġewealdleþer (“rein, bridle”, literally “control strap”), 古期英語 sāl (“cord, rein”), 古期英語 tiġel (“rein”), and 古期英語 lāttēh, lāttēh (“leash, rein”).

名詞

rein (plural reins)

1. A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
2. (figurative) An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.

   The government is attempting to keep a rein on rising prices.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Let their eyes rove without rein.

派生語

動詞

rein (third-person singular simple present reins, present participle reining, simple past and past participle reined)

1. (transitive) To direct or stop a horse by using reins.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     He mounts and reins his horse.

     The spelling has been modernized.

2. (transitive) To restrain; to control; to check.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Being once chafed, he cannot / Be reined again to temperance.

   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     After an interval that he judged to have lasted twenty minutes, the bed began to shake with poorly reined sobs.

3. (intransitive) To obey directions given with the reins.
   • 2011, Marie Claire Peck, Rocking Horse Ranch, page 40:

     She worked each horse at a walk, trot, and then a canter. The horses reined well and executed stops quickly.

派生語

• rein in

派生語

語源 2

From Anglo-Norman reines, Middle French reins, and their source, Latin rēnēs. Doublet of ren.

名詞

rein (plural reins)

1. (now rare, archaic, chiefly in plural) A kidney.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     a man subject to these like imaginations […] hath often the stone imaginarily, before he have it in his reines […].

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Lamentations 3:13:

     He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

2. The inward impulses; the affections and passions, formerly supposed to be located in the area of the kidneys.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 23:16:

     My reins rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 2:23:

     I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.

アナグラム

• in re, Neri, Rine, Érin, rine, Reni, N.Ire., Erin