broach

• vt.持ち出す；穴をあける；議論を始める；口火を切る
• n. ドリル；ノミ；ブローチ
• vi. 突然横を向く

ラテン語のbrocca（針、刺す）が語源。もともとは、話題を切り出すという意味。最終的にはbreakと同じ意味になるかもしれない。

broach

broach: [14] The original meaning of broach was ‘pierce’, and it came from a noun meaning ‘spike’. The word’s ultimate source was the Latin adjective brocchus ‘pointed, projecting’, which in Vulgar Latin came to be used as a noun, *broca ‘spike’. This passed into Old French as broche, meaning ‘long needle’ and also ‘spit for roasting’. English first borrowed the word in the 13th century, as brooch, and then took it over again in the 14th century in the above quoted French meanings.

The nominal senses have now either died out or are restricted to technical contexts, but the verb, from the Vulgar Latin derivative *broccare, remains. From ‘pierce’, its meaning became specifically ‘tap a barrel’, which in the 16th century was applied metaphorically to ‘introduce a subject’. In French, the noun broche has produced a diminutive brochette ‘skewer’, borrowed into English in the 18th century; while a derivative of the verb brocher ‘stitch’ has been brochure, literally ‘a few pages stitched together’, also acquired by English in the 18th century.

A further relative is broccoli [17], plural of Italian broccolo ‘cabbage sprout’, a diminutive of brocco ‘shoot’, from Vulgar Latin *brocca.
=> broccoli, brochure, brooch

broach (n.)

"pointed instrument," c. 1300, from Old French broche (12c.) "spit for roasting, awl, point end, top," from Vulgar Latin *brocca "pointed tool," noun use of fem. of Latin adjective broccus "projecting, pointed" (used especially of teeth), perhaps of Gaulish origin (compare Gaelic brog "awl").

broach (v.)

"pierce," early 14c., from the same source as broach (n.). Meaning "begin to talk about" is 1570s, a figurative use with suggestions of "broaching" a cask or of spurring into action (compare Old French brochier, 12c., "to spur," also "to penetrate sexually"). Related: Broached broaching.

1. She was dreading having to broach the subject of money to her father.

彼女は父親にお金を出さなければならないことに悩んでいる。

2.I thought I 'd better broach the matter with my boss.

ボスに話したほうがいいと思います。

3.It 's a good chance to broach the subject.

その質問を始める良い機会です。

4.While we 're able to broach the subject of sex，money rarely gets an airing.

私たちは議論的な話題を公開することができますが、お金の問題にはあまり言及しません。

5.Accordingly，Mrs.Hurstwood decided to broach the subject.

これらの考えに基づいて、ヘスオア夫人はこの問題を提起することにした。