V
[vi:]
- 英語のアルファベットの20番目の文字。
- バナジウム; volt.
英語の語源
- V
- In Middle English, -u- and -v- were used interchangeably, though with a preference for v- as the initial letter (vnder, vain, etc.) and -u- elsewhere (full, euer, etc.). The distinction into consonant and vowel identities was established in English by 1630, under influence of continental printers, but into 19c. some dictionaries and other catalogues continued to list -u- and -v- words as a single series.
No native Anglo-Saxon words begin in v- except those (vane, vat, vixen) altered by the southwestern England habit of replacing initial f- with v- (and initial s- with z-). Confusion of -v- and -w- also was a characteristic of 16c. Cockney accents.
As a Roman numeral, "five." In German rocket weapons systems of World War II, it stood for Vergeltungswaffe "reprisal weapon." V-eight as a type of motor engine is recorded from 1929 (V-engine is attested from 1909), so called for the arrangement. The V for "victory" hand sign was conceived January 1941 by Belgian politician and resistance leader Victor de Laveleye, to signify French victoire and Flemish vrijheid ("freedom"). It was broadcast into Europe by Radio Belgi?/Radio Belgique and popularized by the BBC by June 1941, from which time it became a universal allied gesture.
例文
- 1. They saw a squadron of fifteen motorcycle policemen driving in V -formation.
- 彼らは15人の警官がバイクに乗って V の字に並んで前進しているのを見た。
- 2.They were waving V ?signs for victory.
- 彼らは勝利を象徴する V の字形のジェスチャーをしている。
- 3.Wild ducks fly in a V -shape when they are going south for the winter.
- カモは V の字になって南へ飛んで冬を過ごす。
- 4.He wore shoulderstrap rank slides with sergeant 's chevrons.
- 彼は、軍曹の V の形をした標識レベルの肩章を着用している。dd>
- 5."No，r-."corrected the man，"M-a- v -r-o--"
- 「いいえ、r-」と訂正した人は、「M-a- v -r-o-」