carnival

• n. マルディグラ、カーニバル；飲酒とお祭り騒ぎ

ラテン語のcarne levare（レバー、持ち上げる）から。もともとは40日間の四旬節の前のキリスト教のカーニバルを指していたが、後にcarne vale、肉に別れを告げる、-val、強さ、語源的にはvalue、valediction（別れの挨拶、良い願い、別れ）と同じ、と広まった。

carnival

carnival: [16] Etymologically, carnival means ‘raising flesh’ – that is, the ‘removal of meat’ from the diet during Lent (carnival was originally a period of merrymaking preceding Lent). It comes from medieval Latin carnelevāmen, a compound noun made up of carō ‘flesh’ (source of English carnal) and levāmen, a derivative of the verb levāre ‘lighten, raise’ (source of English lever, levity, and levy).
=> carnal, carrion, lever, levy

carnival (n.)

1540s, "time of merrymaking before Lent," from French carnaval, from Italian carnevale "Shrove Tuesday," from older Italian forms such as Milanese *carnelevale, Old Pisan carnelevare "to remove meat," literally "raising flesh," from Latin caro "flesh" (see carnage) + levare "lighten, raise, remove" (see lever (n.)). Folk etymology is from Medieval Latin carne vale " 'flesh, farewell!' " Meaning "a circus or fair" is attested by 1931 in North America.

1. The avenues lined with jacaranda trees burst into a carnival of purple.

大通りの両側には青い花のガジュマルが植えられ、咲いた花が紫色の海になっている。

2.The countdown to the Notting Hill Carnival is in its final hours.

ノッティング?ヒル?カーニバルは最後の数時間のカウントダウンに入った。

3.Towards evening the carnival entered its final stage.

夕方が近づくと、カーニバルは最終段階に入る。

4.It 's like one enormous street carnival here.

これは盛大なストリートカーニバルのようなものです。

5.There is a local carnival every year.

地元では毎年カーニバルが行われている。