beetle

• vi.前後に急ぐ；目立つ
• vt. 木槌で叩く
• n. 甲虫；木槌
• n. （甲虫）人の名前；（英）Bitel

語源的にはbite, bitingと同じ。

beetle

beetle: English has three separate words beetle. The commonest, beetle the insect, comes from Old English bitula, which was a derivative of the verb bītan ‘bite’: beetle hence means etymologically ‘the biter’. Beetle ‘hammer’, now largely restricted to various technical contexts, is also Old English: the earliest English form, bētel, goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *bautilaz, a derivative of the verb *bautan, from which English gets beat (the cognate Old Norse beytill meant ‘penis’).

The adjective beetle [14], as in ‘beetle brows’, and its related verb are of unknown origin, although it has been speculated that there is some connection with the tufted antennae of certain species of beetle, which may suggest eyebrows.
=> bite; beat

beetle (n.1)

type of insect, Old English bitela "beetle," literally "little biter," from bitel "biting," related to bitan "to bite" (see bite). As a nickname for the original Volkswagen car, 1946, translating German K?fer.

beetle (v.)

"project, overhang," c. 1600, back-formation from bitelbrouwed "grim-browed, sullen" (mid-14c.), from bitel "sharp-edged, sharp" (c. 1200), probably a compound from Old English *bitol "biting, sharp," related to bite, + brow, which in Middle English meant "eyebrow," not "forehead." Meaning "to overhang dangerously" (of cliffs, etc.) is from c. 1600. Related: Beetled; beetling.

beetle (n.2)

beating tool, Old English bietel, from Proto-Germanic *bautilo-z, from *bautan "to beat" (see beat (v.)).

1. a rare species of beetle

希少な甲虫

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2.He saw a shiny green beetle on a leaf.

木の葉にぴかぴか光る緑色の甲虫がいるのを見た.

3.A firefly is a type of beetle .

ホタルは甲虫である。

4.Look at the beautiful beetle ！

あのきれいな甲虫を見て！

5.He trod the golden beetle underfoot.

彼は金色の甲虫を足元に踏んだ。