brute

• adj. 残酷な; 不合理な
• n. 動物；残忍な人

barの語源である重い、barometer、気圧計、gravity、重力を参照。ここで言葉の意味は、重いから鈍い、愚かな、獣のような、そして最後には獣のような、野蛮なへと移っていく。

brute

brute: [15] The primordial meaning of brute appears to be ‘heavy’. It comes from Latin brūtus ‘heavy’, and it has been speculated that it is related to Latin grāvis ‘heavy’ (from which English gets grave, gravity, and grieve). In Latin the sense ‘heavy’ had already progressed to ‘stupid’, and it later developed to ‘of the lower animals’. It was with this meaning that the word reached English via French. Connotations of ‘cruelty’ do not begin to appear until the 17th century. Brut meaning ‘very dry’ in relation to champagne is a late 19th-century borrowing of the French adjectival form brut, literally ‘rough’.

brute (adj.)

early 15c., "of or belonging to animals," from Middle French brut "coarse, brutal, raw, crude," from Latin brutus "heavy, dull, stupid," an Oscan word, from PIE root *gwere- (2) "heavy" (see grave (adj.)). Before reaching English the meaning expanded to "of the lower animals." Used of human beings from 1530s.

brute (n.)

1610s, from brute (adj.).

1. The burly brute swaggered forward，towering over me，and shouted.

五大三太の悪漢が意気揚々と歩いてきて、上から目線で私に咆哮していた。

2.Boxing is a test of skill and technique，rather than brute strength.

ボクシングで試されるのは技能と技術であり、蛮力ではない。

3.Custer was an idiot and a brute and he deserved his fate.

カストはバカで残虐なやつで罪がある。

4.He was a great brawny brute of a man.

彼はたくましくて粗野な人だ。

5.His father was a drunken brute .

彼の父は横暴な酔っ払いだった。