cocoon

• n. まゆ；卵のう
• vt.きつく包む。

語源はコンク、クラムと同じ。-繭、大言壮語の接尾辞。つまり、硬い殻に守られていることのたとえ。

cocoon (n.)

1690s, from Middle French coucon (16c., Modern French cocon), from coque "clam shell, egg shell, nut shell" (7c.), from Old French coque "shell," from Latin coccum "berry," from Greek kokkos "berry, seed" (see cocco-). The sense of "one's interior comfort place" is from 1986. Also see -oon.

cocoon (v.)

1986, "to stay inside and be inactive," from coccoon (n.).

A lady with an enchanting name, Faith Popcorn, has identified a menacing new American behavior that she gives the sweet name of 'cocooning.' It threatens the nation's pursuit of happiness, sometimes called the economy. [George Will, April 1987]

Related: Cocooned; cocooning.

1. You cannot live in a coon and overlook these facts.

これらの事実を無視して自分でカバーに収縮することはできません。

2.He stood there in a cocoon of golden light.

彼はそこに立って、金色の光が彼を覆っていた。

3.the cocoon of a caring family

家庭における相互愛による保護

4.Doctors cocoon ed the patient in blankets.

医師たちは患者を毛布にきつく包んだ。

5.Most worms cocoon in winter.

冬は多くの虫が繭を作る。