英単語

conscienceの意味・使い方・発音

conscience

英 ['kɒnʃ(ə)ns] 美 ['kɑnʃəns]
  • n. 道徳心、良心
  • n. (良心)人の名前;(仏)Conseillers.

語源


良心

con-「強調する」。-sci、知る、語源的には科学と同じ。

英語の語源


conscience
conscience: [13] Latin conscīre meant ‘be mutually aware’. It was a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘with, together’ and scīre ‘know’ (source of English science). To ‘know something with oneself’ implied, in a neutral sense, ‘consciousness’, but also a moral awareness, a mental differentiation between right and wrong, and hence the derived noun conscientia carried both these meanings, via Old French, into English (the more general, amoral, ‘consciousness’ died out in the 18th century).

A parallel Latin formation, using *sci-, the base of scīre, was conscius ‘aware’, acquired by English in the 17th century as conscious. Conscientious is also a 17th-century borrowing, ultimately from Latin conscientiōsus.

=> science
conscience (n.)
early 13c., from Old French conscience "conscience, innermost thoughts, desires, intentions; feelings" (12c.), from Latin conscientia "knowledge within oneself, sense of right, a moral sense," from conscientem (nominative consciens), present participle of conscire "be (mutually) aware," from com- "with," or "thoroughly" (see com-) + scire "to know" (see science).

Probably a loan-translation of Greek syneidesis, literally "with-knowledge." Sometimes nativized in Old English/Middle English as inwit. Russian also uses a loan-translation, so-vest, "conscience," literally "with-knowledge."

例文


1. The Daily Mail has the headline "The Voice of Conscience "
『デイリーメール』の1面タイトルは「良識の声」。

2.I 'm so glad he had a pang of conscience .
彼が罪悪感を持ってくれることを喜んでいます。

3.I would like your advice on a matter of conscience ,Father.
良心に関することについてアドバイスを求めたい、神父さん。

4.Now the murderer has two deaths on his conscience .
現在、この殺人犯は2人の命を背負っており、良心の呵責を受けている。

5.Mr Garcia said his conscience was clear over the jail incidents.
ガルシアさんは刑務所で起きた事件に恥じないと言った。

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