conundrum

• n. パズル; なぞなぞ

オックスフォードの俗語で、衒学的な衒学者を表すラテン語を真似て作られた擬似ラテン語で、正確な語源は不明。正確な語源は不明。英語のhow, who, what, which, why, quality, quantityに由来するPIE*kwo, a questionから来た可能性がある。

conundrum

conundrum: [16] Conundrum originally appeared in all manner of weird and wonderful guises – conimbrum, conuncrum, quonundrum, connunder, etc – before settling down to conundrum in the late 18th century. It bears all the marks of one of the rather heavy-handed quasi-Latin joke words beloved of scholars in the 16th and 17th centuries, and a mid-17thcentury commentator attributed it to Oxford university. At first it meant ‘whim’ and then ‘pun’; the current sense ‘puzzling problem’ did not develop until the end of the 18th century.

conundrum (n.)

1590s, Oxford University slang for "pedant," also "whim," etc., later (1790) "riddle, puzzle." Also spelled quonundrum. The sort of ponderous pseudo-Latin word that was once the height of humor in learned circles.

1. Scientists had focused on two explanations to solve this connundrum .

科学者はこの難題を解くために2つの解釈をロックしている。

2.Interaction designers often face the connundrum of whether to make their products user-customizable.

インタラクティブデザイナーは、製品にユーザーカスタマイズ機能を持たせるかどうかという課題に常に直面しています。

3.What I said was that there was some interest at Conundrum .

私が言っているのはパズル出版社の人が興味を持っているということです。

4.Many people--too many to count--share your career connundrum .

多くの人--多くの数は数えきれない-あなたと同じような職業上の難題を抱えています。

5.Let me give you some history about a coundrum .

パズルの歴史について教えてあげましょう。