k.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Approximation of Ⓚ using ASCII

接合辞

-k-

1. (pharmacology) Alternative form of -kin-.

名詞

K.

1. Abbreviation of King.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “Edward the second”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 875, column 1:

     Hee wrote likewiſe to yͤ L. Iohn the infante, yͤ L. of Biſkey, and to yͤ Lady Mary of Biſkey, gouernereſſe of yͤ K. of Caſtile and Leon, and to Iames K. of Aragon, requeſting them to aid him with men of warre, as well horſemẽ as footemen againſt his aduerſarie yͤ Frẽch K. that moſt vniuſtly went about to depriue him of his inheritãce.

   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 5:

     The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spaniſh Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips and galeaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar, who is chronicled & regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer.

   • 1661, [Ralph] Brownrigg, A Sermon Preach’d on the Coronation Day of K. Charles I. March 7. 1644. in S. Mary’s in Cambridge, London: […] John Williams […], title page:

     a SERMON Preach’d on the Coronation day of K. Charles I.

   • 1684 [1559], Anth[ony] Sparrow, compiler, A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England, […], 4th edition, London: […] Blanch Rawlet […], →OCLC, title page:

     a COLLECTION of ARTICLES, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Conſtitutions Eccleſiaſtical, With other PUBLICK RECORDS of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VI. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charles I.

   • 1687, William Winstanley, The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets, or The Honour of Parnassus in a Brief Essay of the Works and Writings of Above Two Hundred of Them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, to the Reign of His Present Majesty King James II., London: […] H. Clark, for Samuel Manship […], title page:

     THE LIVES Of the moſt Famous Engliſh Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus; In a Brief ESSAY of the WORKS and WRITINGS of above Two Hundred of them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, To the Reign of His Preſent Majeſty King JAMES II.

   • 1689 [1683], Francis Osborn[e], “Some Traditional Memorials on the Reign of Q. Elizabeth”, in The Works of Francis Osborn, Esq; […], 9th edition, London: Printed, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, →OCLC, paragraph 10, page 453:

     […] the K. made him a Knight, a Baron, a Viſcount, & an Earl in one day, […]

   • 1697, Poems on Affairs of State. The Second Part. Written During the Reign of K. James the II. Against Popery and Slavery, and His Arbitrary Proceedings. […], London, page 15:

     When the K. from the Word he hath given does ſwerve, / And the Judges the Oath they have taken obſerve, / Or for breaking have but what they deſerve; And Popery, &c. / When Archbiſhop of York we ſee Dr. Ken, / And Compton made Biſhop of London agen, / And Herbert Rule, as before, on the Main; […]

   • a. 1709, James Ogilvy Earl of Seafield, James Ogilvy Earl of Findlater, James Grant, Seafield Correspondence from 1685 to 1708, published 1912, page 222:

     now they are upon the preparing bills for evacating all grants of estates and other interests in England and Ireland from the crowne since K. Charles the Second.

   • 1709, Nicholas Rowe, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear‎^[1]:

     And his Elogy upon Q. Elizabeth, and her Successor K. James, in the latter end of his Henry VII, is a Proof of that Play's being written after the Accession of the latter of those two Princes to the Crown of England.

   • 1719, Roger Coke, A Detection of the Court and State of England, During the Reigns of K. James I. Charles I. Charles II. and James II. As Also the Inter-regnum. […], volume II, fourth edition ([…]), London: […] J. Brotherton and W. Meadows, […], page 351:

     […] and all along K. Charles his Reign countenanced the Doctrine of Paſſive Obedience, […]

   • 1725, Ralph Winwood; Edmund Sawyer, Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. […] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by W[illiam] B[owyer], for T. Ward, […], →OCLC, title page:

     MEMORIALS of AFFAIRS of STATE in the REIGNS of Q. ELIZABETH and K. JAMES I.

   • 1734, Thomas Burnet, “An Index to the Two Volumes of This History”, in [Gilbert] Burnet; Thomas Burnet, editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume II, London: […] Joseph Downing […], and Henry Woodfall […], →OCLC, page 763, column 2:

     Tories taken in by K. William, II. 40, 242, 254. and by Q. Anne, 313, 314, 552.

   • 1766: David Lloyd, State⸗⸗Worthies: or, The Statesmen and Favourites of England from the Reformation to the Revolution, volume II, “Obſervations on the Life of the Lord Herbert of Cherbury”, pages 339–340 (J. Robson)

     EDward Herbert, ſon of Richard Herbert, Eſq; and Suſan Newport his wife, was born at Montgomery-caſtle, and brought to court by the earl of Pembrook, where he was knighted by K. James, who ſent him over embaſſador into France. Afterwards K. Charles the firſt created him baron of Caſtle-Iſland in Ireland, and ſome years after baron of Cherbury in Montgomeryſhire.

   • 1790, Edward Hasted, “The Hundred of Calehill”, in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. […], volume III, Canterbury, Kent: […] [F]or the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, →OCLC, page 207, column 2:

     Adelold had half a ſuling and half a yoke, and in the time of K. Edward the Confeſſor it was worth 40 ſhillings, and afterwards 20 ſhillings, now 40 ſhillings.

語源

Uncertain. Perhaps from OK, in phrases like OK, cool; perhaps from the K prefix for kilo-, as in kilobyte.