dwarf
要点こびと
意味
- (童話の)こびと,一寸法師
- (人間の)こびと
- 普通よりずっと小さい動物(植物)
- (対照的に)…を小さく見せる
- 〈植物など〉の自然な成長を妨げる
- (並みはずれて)小さい[種類の]
例文
I was dwarfed by his gigantic frame.
彼の巨大な体格に僕は自分が小さく思えた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English dwergh, dwerw, dwerf, from Old English dweorg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz. Cognate with Scots droich, dwerch (“dwarf, midget”); Old High German twerc (German, Luxembourgish Zwerg (“dwarf”)); Old Norse dvergr (Danish dværg (“dwarf, midget”), Faroese dvørgur (“dwarf”), Icelandic dvergur (“dwarf”), Norwegian Bokmål dverg (“dwarf”), Norwegian Nynorsk dverg, verg (“dwarf”), Swedish dvärg (“dwarf”)); Old Frisian dwirg (Saterland Frisian Dwärch (“dwarf”), West Frisian dwerch (“dwarf”)); Middle Low German dwerch, dwarch, twerg (German Low German Dwarg (“dwarf”)); Middle Dutch dwerch, dworch (Dutch dwerg (“dwarf”)).