fatuous

• adj.愚かな；ぼんやりした；鈍い；自己満足

ラテン語のfatuus「愚かな、無味乾燥な」から。PIE *bhat, to hit, to beatからさらに派生した可能性があり、語源的にはbeat, battenと同じ。 脳死状態の婉曲表現。

fatuous

fatuous: see fade

fatuous (adj.)

"foolish, stupid," 1530s, from Latin fatuus "foolish, insipid, silly;" which is of uncertain origin. Buck suggests originally "stricken" in the head. But de Vaan says from Proto-Italic *fatowo- "of speech," from the PIE root of fame (n.).

[I]f we connect the fact that Fatuus is said to be an alternative name for Faunus, and that he predicted the future, and that this god is attested on an Etruscan mirror as Fatuvs in a clear oracular function (Weiss 2007b), we may venture a derivation from forfor 'to say' (Untermann 2000). The name of the god would then have come to be used pejoratively as 'silly'. [de Vaan]

Related: Fatuously; fatuousness.

1. The Chief was left speechless by this fatuous remark.

という馬鹿な言葉に主任はしばらく言葉が出なかった。

2.What a fatuous remark！

なんて愚かなことを！

3.Why did the fatuous King send him into exile？

ぼんやりした楚王はなぜ屈原を流したのか。

4.Television commercials seem more smug and fatuous than ever.

テレビの広告は以前よりも自惚れているようで愚かだ。

5.He seems to take pride in fatuous remarks.

そんなバカなことを言うと、彼は得意そうだ。