allege: [14] Allege is related to law, legal, legislation, legation, and litigation. Its original source was Vulgar Latin *exlitigāre, which meant ‘clear of charges in a lawsuit’ (from ex- ‘out of’ and litigāre ‘litigate’). This developed successively into Old French esligier and Anglo- Norman alegier, from where it was borrowed into English; there, its original meaning was ‘make a declaration before a legal tribunal’.
Early traces of the notion of making an assertion without proof can be detected within 50 years of the word’s introduction into English, but it took a couple of centuries to develop fully. The hard g of allegation suggests that though it is ultimately related to allege, it comes from a slightly different source: Latin allēgātiō, from allēgāre ‘adduce’, a compound verb formed from ad- ‘to’ and lēgāre ‘charge’ (source of English legate and legation). => law, legal, legation, legislation, litigation
allege (v.)
c. 1300. It has the form of one French verb and the meaning of another. The form is Anglo-French aleger, Old French eslegier "to clear at law," from Latin ex- "out of" (see ex-) and litigare "bring suit" (see litigate); however eslegier meant "acquit, clear of charges in a lawsuit." It somehow acquired the meaning of French alléguer, from Latin allegare "send for, bring forth, name, produce in evidence," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + legare "to depute, send" (see legate). Related: Alleged; alleging.
例文
1. Prosecutors in the trial allege the defendants plotted to overthrow the government.
検察は裁判で被告が共謀して政府を転覆させたと指摘した。
2.To aver is to allege in a pleading.
立証は、弁護における例証である。
3.The newspaper reporters allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.
新聞記者たちはこの男が殺害されたと主張しているが、彼らは証拠を提出していない。
4.He would again and again allege that he was wholly unfitted to new duties.
彼は何度も指摘して、彼は全く新しい職務に適していない。
5.They allege he sent her hard-core pornographic movie clips via the Internet.