autumn

• n.秋; 熟す; 衰える、色あせる
• adj.秋、オータム
• n. （秋の）人名; （英）Autum.

語源は不明。

autumn

autumn: [14] English acquired autumn from Latin autumnus, partly via Old French autompne. Where Latin got the word from is a mystery; it may have been a borrowing from Etruscan, a long-extinct pre-Roman language of the Italian peninsula. In Old English, the term for ‘autumn’ was harvest, and this remained in common use throughout the Middle Ages; it was not until the 16th century that autumn really began to replace it (at the same time as harvest began to be applied more commonly to the gathering of crops). Fall, now the main US term for ‘autumn’, is 16th-century too.

autumn (n.)

late 14c., autumpne (modern form from 16c.), from Old French autumpne, automne (13c.), from Latin autumnus (also auctumnus, perhaps influenced by auctus "increase"), which is of unknown origin. Perhaps from Etruscan, but Tucker suggests a meaning "drying-up season" and a root in *auq- (which would suggest the form in -c- was the original) and compares archaic English sere-month "August."

Harvest was the English name for the season until autumn began to displace it 16c. In Britain, the season is popularly August through October; in U.S., September through November. Compare Italian autunno, Spanish oto?o, Portuguese outono, all from the Latin word. Unlike the other three seasons, its names across the Indo-European languages leave no evidence that there ever was a common word for it.

Many "autumn" words mean "end, end of summer," or "harvest." Compare also Lithuanian ruduo "autumn," from rudas "reddish," in reference to leaves; Old Irish fogamar, literally "under-winter."

1. This could be the feel-good movie of the autumn .

この秋の楽しい映画と言えるでしょう。

2.See our selection of autumn favourites and take your pick.

私たちの秋のベストを見て、あなたが欲しいものを選びます。

3.Gucci will be holding fashion shows to present their autumn collection.

グッチが秋服シリーズを発表するコレクションを開催する。

4.Two thousand grey seal pups are born there every autumn .

そこには毎年秋に2000頭の灰色のアザラシが生まれている。

5.The Government will try to spin out the conference into next autumn .

政府は、会議を次の秋まで延ばすために尽力します。