英単語

captureの意味・使い方・発音

capture

英 ['kæptʃə] 美 ['kæptʃɚ]
  • vt.捕獲する;奪う;捕獲する、撃つ
  • n.捕獲; トロフィー、捕虜

語源


捕獲

captive(捕虜)を参照。

英語の語源


capture
capture: [16] Along with its relatives captive, captivity, captivate, and captor, capture is the English language’s most direct lineal descendant of Latin capere ‘take, seize’ (others include capable, case for carrying things, cater, and chase, and heave is distantly connected). First to arrive was captive [14], which was originally a verb, meaning ‘capture’; it came via Old French captiver from Latin captīvus, the past participle of capere.

Contemporary in English was the adjectival use of captive, from which the noun developed. (The now archaic caitiff [13] comes from the same ultimate source, via an altered Vulgar Latin *cactivus and Old French caitiff ‘captive’.) Next on the scene was capture, in the 16th century; originally it was only a noun, and it was not converted to verbal use until the late 18th century, when it replaced captive in this role.

Also 16th-century is captivate, from the past participle of late Latin captivāre, a derivative of captīvus; this too originally meant ‘capture’, a sense which did not die out until the 19th century: ‘The British … captivated four successive patrols’, John Neal, Brother Jonathan 1825.

=> captive, cater, chase, cop, heave
capture (n.)
1540s, from Middle French capture "a taking," from Latin captura "a taking" (especially of animals), from captus (see captive).
capture (v.)
1795, from capture (n.); in chess, checkers, etc., 1820. Related: Captured; capturing. Earlier verb in this sense was captive (early 15c.).

例文


1. Swanson persuaded Hubley to work undercover to capture the killer.
スワンソンは、犯人を捕まえるためにヘブライを説得した。

2.To capture his equity,Murphy must either sell or refinance.
資産の純価値を得るには、マーフィーは売却または再融資しなければならない。

3.The photographers managed to capture Jane in unguarded moment.
カメラマンが何気ない瞬間を捉えた。

4.His paintings capture the essence of France.
彼の絵はフランスの神韻を描いている。

5.His treachery led to the capture and imprisonment of his friend.
彼の裏切りにより、彼の友人は逮捕され投獄された。

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