英単語

extravagantの意味・使い方・発音

extravagant

英 [ɪk'strævəg(ə)nt; ek-] 美 [ɪk'strævəgənt]
  • adj.贅沢;浪費;過剰;放縦

語源


贅沢な

extra-、外、超える。-すなわち、通常の範囲からはみ出すこと、過度に浪費すること。

英語の語源


extravagant
extravagant: [14] An extravagant person is literally one who ‘wanders out of’ the proper course. The word comes from the present participle of medieval Latin extrāvagārī, a compound formed from the prefix extrā- ‘outside’ and vagārī ‘wander’ (source of English vagabond, vagary, and vagrant), which seems originally to have been used adjectivally with reference to certain uncodified or ‘stray’ papal decrees. This was the word’s original application in English, and the present-day meanings ‘wildly excessive’ and ‘spending too lavishly’ did not really establish themselves before the early 18th century.
=> vagabond, vagary, vagrant
extravagant (adj.)
late 14c., from Medieval Latin extravagantem (nominative extravagans), originally a word in Canon Law for uncodified papal decrees, present participle of extravagari "wander outside or beyond," from Latin extra "outside of" (see extra-) + vagari "wander, roam" (see vague). Extended sense of "excessive, extreme, exceeding reasonable limits" first recorded 1590s, probably via French; that of "wasteful, lavish, exceeding prudence in expenditure" is from 1711. Related: Extravagantly. Wordsworth ("Prelude") used extravagate (v.).

例文


1. I can have a brainstorm and be very extravavagant .
私は時々頭が熱くなり、散財することがあります。

2.Who is footing the bill for her extravagant holiday?
贅沢な休日のために注文するのは誰?

3.The coronation was an occasion for extravagant myth and sentiment.
戴冠式は贅沢とノスタルジックを極める儀式である。

4.Her Aunt Sallie gave her an uncharacteristically extravagant gift.
サリーおばさんは彼女に高価で途方もない贈り物をした。

5.Don 't be afraid to consider apparently extravagant ideas.
スペクトルから外れているような考えを勇敢に考えなければならない。

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