接頭辞 ad-, to, to.接頭辞 ad-, to, to. -dress は direct, to guide, to lead と同じ。rectの語根はrightと同じ。
英語の語源
address
address: [14] Address originally meant ‘straighten’. William Caxton, for example, here uses it for ‘stand up straight’: ‘The first day that he was washed and bathed he addressed him[self] right up in the basin’ Golden Legend 1483. This gives a clue to its ultimate source, Latin dīrectum ‘straight, direct’. The first two syllables of this seem gradually to have merged together to produce *drictum, which with the addition of the prefix ad- was used to produce the verb *addrictiāre.
Of its descendants in modern Romance languages, Italian addirizzare most clearly reveals its source. Old French changed it fairly radically, to adresser, and it was this form which English borrowed. The central current sense of ‘where somebody lives’ developed in the 17th and 18th centuries from the notion of directing something, such as a letter, to somebody. => direct
address (v.)
early 14c., "to guide or direct," from Old French adrecier "go straight toward; straighten, set right; point, direct" (13c.), from Vulgar Latin *addirectiare "make straight," from Latin ad "to" (see ad-) + *directiare, from Latin directus "straight, direct" (see direct (v.)). Late 14c. as "to set in order, repair, correct." Meaning "to write as a destination on a written message" is from mid-15c. Meaning "to direct spoken words (to someone)" is from late 15c. Related: Addressed; addressing.
address (n.)
1530s, "dutiful or courteous approach," from address (v.) and from French adresse. Sense of "formal speech" is from 1751. Sense of "superscription of a letter" is from 1712 and led to the meaning "place of residence" (1888).
例文
1. Someone cranked up the volume of the public address system.
公共放送システムの音量を大きくした人がいます。
2.I looked your address up in the personnel file.
人事ファイルにあなたの住所を見つけました。
3.Send your details on a card to the following address .
はがきにあなたの近況を明記して次の住所に送ります。
4.He took my name and address ，scribbling it down in his notebook.
彼は私の名前と住所を求めて、急いで彼のノートに書いた。
5.The President gave an address to the American people.