death

• n. 死; 死生観; 死霊術; 破壊
• n. （死）人の名前；（英）Deas.

deadの名詞形から。

death

death: [OE] Like dead, death comes from a Germanic verb base *dau-, which also produced English die. To it was added the abstract noun suffix *-tus, later *-thuz, meaning ‘act, process, condition’. This produced prehistoric Germanic *dauthuz, source of Gothic dauthus, Old Norse dauthr, and Old English dēath. Its modern English descendant, death, thus means literally ‘act or process of dying’, in the same way as birth means ‘act or process of bearing’ and strength means ‘condition of being strong’.
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death (n.)

Old English deae "death, dying, cause of death," in plura, "ghosts," from Proto-Germanic *dauthuz (cognates: Old Saxon doth, Old Frisian dath, Dutch dood, Old High German tod, German Tod, Old Norse dauei, Danish d?d, Swedish d?d, Gothic dautus "death"), from verbal stem *dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)) + *-thuz suffix indicating "act, process, condition."

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and onely declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. [John Donne, letter to Sir Henry Goodere, Sept. 1608]

Death's-head, a symbol of mortality, is from 1590s. Death row first recorded 1940s. Death knell is attested from 1814; death penalty from 1875; death rate from 1859. Slang be death on "be very good at" is from 1839. Death wish first recorded 1896. The death-watch beetle (1660s) inhabits houses, makes a ticking noise like a watch, and was superstitiously supposed to portend death.

FEW ears have escaped the noise of the death-watch, that is, the little clickling sound heard often in many rooms, somewhat resembling that of a watch; and this is conceived to be of an evil omen or prediction of some person's death: wherein notwithstanding there is nothing of rational presage or just cause of terror unto melancholy and meticulous heads. For this noise is made by a little sheathwinged grey insect, found often in wainscot benches and wood-work in the summer. [Browne, "Vulgar Errors"]

1. It was a crime of espionage and carried the death penalty.

スパイ罪であり、死刑にすべきである。

2.A young man plunged from a sheer rock face to his death .

男性青年が切り立った岩壁から崖から転落して死亡した。

3.Bishop Daly said he was devastated by news of the Cardinal 's death .

デリー司教は、枢機卿の死去を聞いて驚きと悲しみを感じたと語った。

4.Accidents are still the number one cause of premature death for Americans.

交通事故は依然として米国人の早期死亡の第一因子である。

5.The auguries of death are fast gathering round his head.

死の凶兆が急速に彼の頭の中を旋回している。