felon
英 ['felən]
美 ['fɛlən]
- n. [仏]重罪人; 白丁; 悪党
- n.[フランス語]重罪人;[フランス語]フロンド.
英語の語源
- felon
- felon: [13] Medieval Latin fellō (a word of uncertain origin, sometimes referred to Latin fel ‘gall, poison’) meant ‘evil-doer’. Its nominative form gave English the adjective fell ‘fierce, lethal’, via Old French fel, while its stem form, fellōn-, passed into English through Old French felon. The derivative felony [13] comes from Old French felonie.
=> fell - felon (n.)
- c. 1300, "one who deceives or commits treason; one who is wicked or evil; evil-doer," used of Lucifer and Herod, from Old French felon "evil-doer, scoundrel, traitor, rebel, oath-breaker, the Devil" (9c.), from Medieval Latin fellonem (nominative fello) "evil-doer," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Frankish *fillo, *filljo "person who whips or beats, scourger" (source of Old High German fillen "to whip"); or from Latin fel "gall, poison," on the notion of "one full of bitterness." Celtic origins also have been proposed.
Another theory (advanced by Professor R. Atkinson of Dublin) traces it to Latin fellare "to suck" (see fecund), which had an obscene secondary meaning in classical Latin (well-known to readers of Martial and Catullus), which would make a felon etymologically a "cock-sucker." OED inclines toward the "gall" explanation, but finds Atkinson's "most plausible" of the others.
Also by c. 1300 in English in a general legal sense "criminal; one who has committed a felony," however that was defined. Century Dictionary notes, "the term is not applicable after legal punishment has been completed." In Middle English it also was an adjective, "traitorous, wicked, malignant." Australian official James Mudie (1837), coined felonry "as the appellative of an order or class of persons in New South Wales,--an order which happily exists in no other country in the world."
例文
- 1. So I answered up like a felon fighting for his freedom，and I answered pat，because I was telling the truth，which is sometimes a help.
- だから、私はすぐに答えて、まるで重犯人が自由を勝ち取っているかのように、そして、私がこんなに迅速に答えたのは、私が正直に言っているからであり、それは時々役に立つ。
- 2.He 's a convicted felon .
- 彼は有罪判決を受けた重犯だ。
- 3. Hitler's early'successes " were only the startling depredations of a resolute felon .
- ヒトラーの初期の「勝利」は、思い込みの悪党が予想外に手を奪ったにすぎない。
- 4.I 'm a convicted federal felon .
- 私は有罪判決を受けた全国の重犯となった。
- 5.I found out my ex-partner 's a liar and a felon .
- 私は私のスーパーパートナーが嘘をつくのに慣れていることを発見しました。
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