drama: [17] Etymologically, drama is simply ‘that which is done’ (in that respect it closely resembles act, which has the neutral, general meaning ‘do something’, as well as the more specific ‘perform on stage’). It comes via late Latin drāma from Greek drama, originally ‘deed, action’, and hence ‘play’. This was a derivative of the verb dran ‘do’, whose past participle was the ultimate source of English drastic [17]. => drastic
drama (n.)
1510s, from Late Latin drama "play, drama," from Greek drama (genitive dramatos) "play, action, deed," from dran "to do, act, perform" (especially some great deed, whether good or bad), from PIE *dere- "to work." Drama queen attested by 1992.
例文
1. 「Kathleen 」was，as its 1892 subtitle asserted，"An Irish Drama ".
1892年のシナリオの副題で強調されているように、「キャサリン」は「アイルランド演劇」である。
2.Why are Geography， Drama ，Art and English in the ascendant？
なぜ地理、演劇、芸術、英語が人気になってきたのか？
3.The drama takes an idealistic，even a naive view of the subject.
この劇はこのテーマに対して理想的で、無邪気でさえある。
4.The meeting had all the ingredients of high political drama .
今回の会議は高度に劇的な政治事件としてのすべての要素を備えている。
5.It carried off the Evening Standard drama award for best play.