英単語

emotionの意味・使い方・発音

emotion

英 [ɪ'məʊʃ(ə)n] 美 [ɪ'moʃən]
  • n. 感情、気分

語源


感情、情熱

e-、外へe-、外へ -mot、動く、噴出、語源的にはmove、動きと同じ。

英語の語源


emotion
emotion: [16] The semantic notion underlying emotion – of applying ‘physical movement’ metaphorically to ‘strong feeling’ – is an ancient one: Latin used the phrase mōtus animā, literally ‘movement of the spirit’, in this sense. Emotion itself is a post-classical Latin formation; it comes ultimately from Vulgar Latin *exmovēre, literally ‘move out’, hence ‘excite’, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and movēre ‘move’ (source of English move).

In French this became émouvoir, and English borrowed its derived noun émotion, but at first used it only in the literal sense ‘moving, agitation’ (‘The waters continuing in the caverns … caused the emotion or earthquake’, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society 1758) and the metaphorically extended ‘political agitation or disturbance’ (a sense now preserved only in émeute [19], another derivative of French émouvoir).

It was not until the late 17th century that the sense ‘strong feeling’ really came to the fore. The back-formation emote is a 20th-century phenomenon, of US origin.

=> émeute, move
emotion (n.)
1570s, "a (social) moving, stirring, agitation," from Middle French émotion (16c.), from Old French emouvoir "stir up" (12c.), from Latin emovere "move out, remove, agitate," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Sense of "strong feeling" is first recorded 1650s; extended to any feeling by 1808.

例文


1. A tide of emotion rose and clouded his judgement.
心の中に強い感情が湧いてきて、彼の判断力を曖昧にした。

2.Most of those attending the funeral stood silently showing little emotion .
葬儀に出席した人の多くは無表情で静かに立っていた。

3.When we feel anger,we bury the emotion and feel guilty instead.
私たちが怒りを感じると、その気持ちを抑えることはかえって後ろめたさを感じます。

4.Her voice breaking with emotion 、she told him:"It doesn 't seem fair ".
彼女は興奮して声を震わせ、彼に言った。「これは不公平だろう。」

5。For just the second time a look of emotion creases his face.
彼の顔には、2度目の感情がにじみ出ていた。

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