英単語

babyの意味・使い方・発音

baby

英 ['beɪbɪ] 美 ['bebi]
  • n. 赤ん坊、幼児;子供っぽい人
  • vt.甘やかす、甘やかす; ......を幼児のように扱う
  • adj. 幼稚な; 幼い
  • n. (赤ちゃんの)人の名前;(フランス語、ポルトガル語)barbie;(英語)barbie、barbie(女性の名前);(ロシア語)babe

語源


ベイビーベイビー

赤ちゃんの泣き声を模したオノマトペ。

英語の語源


baby
baby: [14] Like mama and papa, baby and the contemporaneous babe are probably imitative of the burbling noises made by an infant that has not yet learned to talk. In Old English, the term for what we would now call a ‘baby’ was child, and it seems only to have been from about the 11th century that child began to extend its range to the slightly more mature age which it now covers. Then when the word baby came into the language, it was used synonymously with this developed sense of child, and only gradually came to refer to infants not yet capable of speech or walking.
baby (n.)
late 14c., babi, diminutive of baban (see babe + -y (3)). Meaning "childish adult person" is from c. 1600. Meaning "youngest of a group" is from 1897. As a term of endearment for one's lover it is attested perhaps as early as 1839, certainly by 1901; its popularity perhaps boosted by baby vamp "a popular girl," student slang from c. 1922. As an adjective, by 1750.

Baby food is from 1833. Baby blues for "blue eyes" recorded by 1892 (the phrase also was used for "postpartum depression" 1950s-60s). To empty the baby out with the bath (water) is first recorded 1909 in G.B. Shaw (compare German das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten). Baby's breath (noted for sweet smell, which also was supposed to attract cats) as a type of flower is from 1897. French bébé (19c.) is from English.
baby (v.)
"to treat like a baby," 1742, from baby (n.). Related: Babied; babying.

例文


1. マリアは子供の言葉で子供と話しています。

2.If a baby is thirsty,it feeds more often.
赤ちゃんは喉が渇いたら、もっと頻繁に食べます。

3.Derek is now the proud father of a bouncing baby girl.
デレクは今、健康で活発な女性の赤ちゃんがいることを誇りに思っている。

4.The birth of a live healthy baby is a truly blessed event.
健康で活発な赤ちゃんが生まれたことは喜ばしいことだ。

5.Don 't assume your baby automatically needs feeding if she 's fretful.赤ちゃんが騒ぐと乳を飲むことになると思ってはいけません。

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