ferocious
英 [fə'rəʊʃəs]
美 [fə'roʃəs]
語源
英語の語源
- ferocious
- ferocious: [17] Etymologically, ferocious means ‘wild-eyed’. It comes from Latin ferox, which was originally a compound formed from ferus ‘fierce, wild’ (source of English feral [17]) and an element -oc-, -ox meaning ‘looking, appearing’. This also appears in atrocious and ocular, and goes back to an Indo-European source which also produced Greek ōps ‘eye’ and English eye.
=> atrocious, eye, feral, ocular - ferocious (adj.)
- 1640s, from Latin ferocis, oblique case of ferox "fierce, wild-looking" (see ferocity). Alternative ferocient (1650s) is seldom seen. Related: Ferociously; ferociousness.
例文
- 1. A ferocious battle to select a new parliamentary candidate is in progress.
- 新しい議会候補者を選ぶ激戦が繰り広げられている。
- 2.Lindbergh was startled at the ferocious depth of anti-British feeling.
- 反英感情の深さにリンドバーグは大いに驚いた。
- 3.Once again there 's been ferocious blood-letting in the township.
- 町で再び残忍な流血が発生した。/
- 4.Fighting has been ferocious .
- 戦闘は非常に激しい。/
- 5.a man driven by ferocious determination
- 強い決意に駆られた人