discuss: [14] The ultimate source of discuss meant ‘smash to pieces’. It comes from discuss-, the past participle stem of Latin discutere, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and quatere ‘shake’ (from which English also gets concussion and quash). Its literal meaning was ‘smash apart, break up’, and this gradually developed via ‘scatter, disperse’ to, in post-classical times, ‘investigate, examine’ and eventually ‘debate’.
The apparently wide semantic discrepancy between ‘scatter, disperse’ and ‘examine’ was probably bridged by some such intermediate notion as ‘disperse or separate in the mind so as to distinguish and identify each component’. => concussion, quash
discuss (v.)
mid-14c., "to examine, investigate," from Latin discuss-, past participle stem of discutere "to dash to pieces, agitate," in Late Latin and Vulgar Latin also "to discuss, investigate" (see discussion). Meaning "examine by argument, debate" is from mid-15c. Related: Discussed; discussing.
例文
1. The Politburo has been meeting in Peking to discuss the situation.
政治局は北京で会議を開いて情勢を討論した。
2.Senior politicians met today to discuss the future of European economic unity.
上級政府は今日会合し、欧州経済統合の未来を検討する。
3.The magazine 's aim is to discuss topical issues within a Christian framework.
同誌は、キリスト教の枠組みの下で時下のホットな話題を議論することを目的としている。
4.All he ever does is discuss the same boring list of medications.
彼は同じつまらない薬品リストについて何度も議論する。
5.They will discuss how to bail the economy out of its slump.