extreme

• adj.極端な; 極端な; 過激な; 一線の終わり
• n. 極端; 端; 最大; 極端なもの

extra-、外、超える。-m、最高の接尾辞、ultimate、究極を参照。

extreme

extreme: [15] Etymologically, extreme is the latinate equivalent of the native English utmost. It comes via Old French extreme from Latin extrēmus ‘farthest, last, excessive’, which began life as a superlative form based on Latin ex ‘out’ – hence originally ‘most out, utmost’. The underlying notion of ‘furthest outlying’ still survives in, for example, the use of extremities for the ‘hands’ or ‘feet’.

extreme (adj.)

early 15c., "outermost, farthest;" also "utter, total, in greatest degree" (opposed to moderate), from Old French extreme (13c.), from Latin extremus "outermost, utmost, farthest, last; the last part; extremity, boundary; highest or greatest degree," superlative of exterus (see exterior). In English as in Latin, not always felt as a superlative, hence more extreme, most extreme (which were condemned by Johnson). Extreme unction preserves the otherwise extinct sense of "last, latest" (15c.).

extreme (n.)

1540s, "utmost point of a thing," from extreme (adj.); originally of the end of life (compare Latin in extremis in reference to the "last stages of life"). Phrase in the extreme "in an extreme degree" attested from c. 1600. Hence extremes "extremities, opposite ends of anything" (1550s); also "extreme measures" (1709).

1. The extreme right reared its ugly head in the 1980 s.

極右勢力は1980年代に台頭した。

2.It is hard to imagine Lineker capable of anything so extreme .

ライアンクルがこのような極端なことをするとは考えにくい。

3.Inher extreme youth,Maria had sold her sexual favours for money.

マリアは非常に若い頃、売春で稼いだことがある。

4.The far right is now a greater threat than the extreme left.

現在、極右派は極左派よりも脅威が大きい。

5.They gathered to protest against the renaissance of the extreme right.

彼らは集まって極右勢力の復活に抗議した。