cab

• n. タクシー；ハイヤー；ハイヤー
• vi.ハイヤー（または車）で移動する。

ラテン語のcaper（ヤギ）が語源で、語源的にはcaprice（カプリチェ）、cabriolet（カブリオレ）と同じ。 もともとは跳ねるヤギのような、でこぼこした馬車のこと。

cab

cab: [19] Cab is short for cabriolet, a term, borrowed from French, for a light horse-drawn carriage. It comes, via the French verb cabrioler, from Italian capriolare ‘jump in the air’, a derivative of capriolo ‘roebuck’, from Latin capreolus, a diminutive form of caper ‘goat’ (source of English caper ‘leap’ and Capricorn). The reason for its application to the carriage was that the vehicle’s suspension was so springy that it appeared to jump up and down as it went along. From the same source comes the cabriole leg ‘curved furniture leg’ [18], from its resemblance to the front leg of a capering animal.
=> cabriole, cabriolet, caper, capricorn

cab (n.)

1826, "light, horse-drawn carriage," shortening of cabriolet (1763), from French cabriolet (18c.), diminutive of cabrioler "leap, caper" (16c./17c.), from Italian capriolare "jump in the air," from capriola, properly "the leap of a kid," from Latin capreolus "wild goat, roebuck," from PIE *kap-ro- "he-goat, buck" (cognates: Old Irish gabor, Welsh gafr, Old English h?fr, Old Norse hafr "he-goat"). The carriages had springy suspensions.

Extended to hansoms and other types of carriages, then extended to similar-looking parts of locomotives (1851). Applied especially to public horse carriages, then to automobiles-for-hire (1899) when these began to replace them.

1. The cab pulled up and the driver jumped out.

タクシーが減速して止まり、運転手が飛び出した。

2.A Luton van has additional load space over the driver 's cab .

ルドンバンの運転室の上には余裕のある積載スペースがある。

3.I rode to Lily 's in a cab .

タクシーでリリーの家に行きました。

4.The cab was decked out with multi-coloured lights.

タクシーには色とりどりのイルミネーションが飾られている。

5.He climbed down from the cab .

彼はタクシーから苦労して這い出した。