cement

• 固める、強化する、セメントで固める、結合する。
• vi. 接着する
• n. セメント；接合剤

PIE*skeiの「切る、裂く」から。語源的にはexcite、scissorと同じ。 -セメント、名詞の接尾辞。もともとは切り落とされた小石を指したが、後にセメントを指すようになった。

cement

cement: [13] Latin caementa meant ‘stone chips used for making mortar’; etymologically, the notion behind it was of ‘hewing for a quarry’, for it was originally *caedmenta, a derivative of caedere ‘cut’ (from which English gets concise and decide). In due course the signification of the Latin word passed from ‘small broken stones’ to ‘powdered stone (used for mortar)’, and it was in this sense that it passed via Old French ciment into English.
=> concise, decide

cement (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French ciment "cement, mortar, pitch," from Latin c?menta "stone chips used for making mortar" (singular caementum), from caedere "to cut down, chop, beat, hew, fell, slay" (see -cide). The sense evolution from "small broken stones" to "powdered stones used in construction" took place before the word reached English.

cement (v.)

c. 1400, from cement (n.) or Old French cimenter. Figurative use from c. 1600. Related: Cemented; cementing.

1. The gym teachers lined us up against the cement walls.

体育の先生は私たちにセメントの壁に寄りかかって並べさせた。

2.In the old days，television was the cement of society.

かつて、テレビは社会を団結させる力だった。

3.A puppy stepped in the fresh cement .

子犬が塗りたてのセメント面に踏んだ。

4.The earth-moving trucks and cement mixers lay idle.

トラックとコンクリートミキサーが放置されている。

5.He had spent several hours mixing cement .

彼は数時間かけてセメントをかき混ぜた。