slepenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 古期英語 slǣpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsleːpən/, /ˈslɛ̝ːpən/

動詞

slepen (third-person singular simple present slepeth, present participle slepende, slepynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle sleped)

1. To sleep; to be sleeping:
   • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:

     Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon

     "Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!"

   • c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1450–1475 in Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 638, folio 110v:

     For Nature wolde nat ſuffyſe / To non erthly creature / Not longe tyme to endure / Without ſlepe & be yn ſorwe / And I ne may ne nyght ne morwe / Slepe […]

     For Nature will not allow / Any earthly creature / To survive for long / Without sleep, and sorrowing; / And yet I cannot, by night or morning, / Sleep, […]

   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto, lines 9-10:

     And smale foweles maken melodye / That slepen al the nyght with open iye

     And small birds make melodies, / sleeping all night with an open eye.

   1. To fall asleep; to go to sleep.
   2. To cause to sleep; to make sleep.
2. (figuratively) To copulate, have intercourse
3. (figuratively) To be unused or dormant.

Conjugation

関連する語

• slep

派生した語

• English: sleep, sleepe (obsolete)
  • Sranan Tongo: sribi
• Middle Scots: sleip, slepe
  • Scots: sleep

参照

• “slẹ̄pen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 March 2018.