sheath
意味
- (刀などの)さや
- (動・植物のある部分をおおう)さや;(ケーブルの)鎧装(がいそう)など
体にぴったり合った女性の衣服
例文
Eventually, he returned the sword to its sheath.
やがて彼は白刃を鞘に収めた。
A longsword sheathed in an intricately engraved scabbard.
凝った彫刻のしてある鞘に収まった長剣。
The longsword was sheathed in an intricately engraved scabbard.
あの長剣は凝った彫刻のしてある鞘に収まった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English sheth, shethe (“holder for a sword, knife, etc., scabbard, sheath”) [and other forms], from Old English sċēaþ (“sheath”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz (“sheath; covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”) (possibly from the notion of a split stick with a sword inserted). The English word is cognate with Danish skede, Dutch schede, Icelandic skeið, German Scheide, Low German scheed, Norwegian skjede.