breeze

• n. そよ風；軽い出来事；石炭の粉塵；コークスのスラグ；小さな嵐
• vi. そよ風を吹かせる；逃げる
• n. （そよ風）人の名前；（仏）そよ風

おそらく呼吸から。後にそよ風、心地よい風を指す。

breeze

breeze: [16] Breeze has not always connoted ‘lightness’ or ‘gentleness’. Old Spanish briza, its probable source, meant ‘cold northeast wind’, and that is the meaning it originally had in English. The word was picked up through English-Spanish contact in Central and South America, and the fact that on the Atlantic coast of the area the onshore winds were from the east and northeast led in the 17th century to breeze being applied to any cool wind from the sea (as in ‘sea breezes’), and gradually to any light wind.

The adjective breezy perhaps retains more of the word’s earlier ‘cold’ connotations. The breeze [18] of breezeblock is a completely different word, meaning ‘cinders’, and comes from French braise ‘live coals’, source also of English braise and brazier.

breeze (n.)

1560s, "north or northeast wind," from Old Spanish briza "cold northeast wind;" in West Indies and Spanish Main, the sense shifting to "northeast trade wind," then "fresh wind from the sea." English sense of "gentle or light wind" is from 1620s. An alternative possibility is that the English word is from East Frisian brisen "to blow fresh and strong." The slang for "something easy" is American English, c. 1928.

breeze (v.)

"move briskly," 1904, from breeze (n.). Related: Breezed; breezing.

1. The blustery winds of spring had dropped to a gentle breeze .

吹きすさぶ春風は弱まり、習わしのそよ風となった。

2.The tops of the trees rippled in the breeeze .

樹冠がそよ風にゆらゆら揺れている。

3.The sun went in，and the breeeze became cold.

雲が太陽を覆い、そよ風が少し涼しくなった。

4.There was a short sharp shower followed by a strengthening breeeze .

短時間に強い雨が降ってから風が長くなってきた。

5.The sun baked down on the concrete，unrelieved by any breeeze .

太陽はセメントを炙り、熱は微風のために軽減されなかった。