burglar

• n. 夜盗、空き巣

burg、城。larceny、盗む、から略されたlの文字。

burglar

burglar: [15] The first trace we have of burglar is as burgulator in 13th-century Anglo-Latin texts, and it appears in Anglo-Norman legal documents of the 15th century as burgler. These point to an unrecorded medieval Latin base *burg- ‘plunder’, which appears in Old French burgur ‘robber’. The verb burgle is a 19thcentury back-formation from burglar.

burglar (n.)

1540s, shortened from Anglo-Latin burglator (late 13c.), earlier burgator, from Medieval Latin burgator "burglar," from burgare "to break open, commit burglary," from Latin burgus "fortress, castle," a Germanic loan-word akin to borough. The intrusive -l- is perhaps from influence of Latin latro "thief" (see larceny). The native word, Old English burgh-breche, might have influenced the word.

1. Today I might hesitate to turn in a burglar .

今、入室泥棒を警察に届けさせてくれるので、心配になるかもしれません。

2.This burglar thought old people are easy.

この夜盗は老人が手を出しやすいと思っている。

3.The burglar alarm is activated by movement.

この防犯警報器は動くと鳴る。

4.The burglar got in through the window.

盗賊は窓から入ってきた。

5.The burglar shone his torch into the dark room.

盗賊は懐中電灯を暗い部屋に照らした。