wit
要点機知、機知に富む人、理解(表現)力
意味
- 知る(know)
- 機知,機転,ウィット
- 機知に富む人,機転のきく人
- 《複数形で;単数扱い》理解(表現)力,知性
- 《複数形で》(物事を見抜いたりもくろんだりする)才覚,才知
- 《複数形で;単数扱い》正気
例文
What he lacked in wit, he made up for in energy.
彼は知恵の足りないのを力で補った。
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
酒が入ったところから知恵は出てゆく。
I was almost at my wits' end about how to act.
どうしたらよいか途方に暮れてしまった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English wit, witt, wyt, from Old English witt (“mind, sanity, sense, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *witi, from Proto-Germanic *witją (“knowledge; reason; wit”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to know”), from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch wit (“knowledge”), German and Luxembourgish Witz (“joke; humour, wit”), Low German Weet (“knowledge; idea; inkling”), Yiddish וויץ (vits, “joke”), Danish vid (“wit”), Faroese and Icelandic vit (“intelligence, wits; reason, sense; knowledge; awareness, sentience”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish vett (“intelligence, sense, wit”), Norwegian Nynorsk vett, vit (“sense, wits”), Got…
関連する単語
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