endorse

• vt.裏書する；承認する；署名する；承認する；裏面に署名する

en-、入る、作る。-dors、背中、背中を参照。背中にサインすることを意味する金融用語。

endorse

endorse: [16] To endorse something is literally to write ‘on the back’ of it. The word comes from medieval Latin indorsāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix in- ‘in’ and dorsum ‘back’ (source of English dorsal, doss, and dossier). (An earlier English version of the word was endoss [14], acquired via Old French endosser, which died out in the 17th century.)
=> dorsal, doss, dossier

endorse (v.)

c. 1400, endosse "confirm or approve" (a charter, bill, etc.), originally by signing or writing on the back of the document, from Old French endosser (12c.), literally "to put on the back," from en- "put on" (see en- (1)) + dos "back," from Latin dossum, variant of dorsum "back" (see dorsal). Assimilated 16c. in form to Medieval Latin indorsare. Figurative sense of "confirm, approve" is recorded in English first in 1847. Related: Endorsed; endorsing.

You can endorse, literally, a cheque or other papers, &, metaphorically, a claim or argument, but to talk of endorsing material things other than papers is a solecism. [Fowler]

1. The payee of the cheque must endorse the cheque.

受取人は小切手に裏書しなければならない。

2.I wholeheartedly endorse his remarks.

私は彼の言葉に誠実に同意します。

3.The plan does not explicitly endorse the private ownership of land.

この計画は土地私有制を明確に支持していない。

4.No one is foolish enough to endorse it.

それに賛成するほどバカな人はいない。

5.I fully endorse your opinions on this subject.

この課題に対するあなたの主張を完全に擁護します。