flagrant

• 名詞flagrancy、副詞flagrantly）。

PIE*bhlegの「照らす」「閃く」が拡大したもので、語源的にはflame、blazeと同じ。 もともとはきらびやかな、輝かしいという意味だった。その後、理由は不明だが、蔑称として使われるようになった。中国の汚職事件を参照。

flagrant

flagrant: [15] Etymologically, flagrant means ‘burning, blazing’. It comes, via French, from the present participle of Latin flagrāre ‘burn’ (source of English conflagration [16]). This in turn went back to Indo-European *bhleg-, which also produced English flame. The use of flagrant for ‘shameless, shocking’, an 18th-century development, comes from the Latin phrase in flagrante delicto ‘red-handed’, literally ‘with the crime still blazing’.
=> conflagration, flame

flagrant (adj.)

c. 1500, "resplendent" (obsolete), from Latin flagrantem (nominative flagrans) "burning, blazing, glowing," figuratively "glowing with passion, eager, vehement," present participle of flagrare "to burn, blaze, glow" from Proto-Italic *flagro- "burning" (cognates: Oscan flagio-, an epithet of Iuppiter), corresponding to PIE *bhleg-ro-, from *bhleg- "to shine, flash, burn" (cognates: Greek phlegein "to burn, scorch," Latin fulgere "to shine"), from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Sense of "glaringly offensive, scandalous" (rarely used of persons) first recorded 1706, probably from common legalese phrase flagrante delicto "while the crime is being committed, red-handed," literally "with the crime still blazing." Related: Flagrantly.

1. The judge called the decision "a flagrant violation of international law "

裁判官は、この決定を「国際法に対する公然とした違反」と述べた。a flagrant abuse of human rights

乱暴に人権を踏みにじる

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3.Telling the story was a flagrant breach of trust.

嘘をつくのは恥ずべき信用破壊行為である。

4.The attack on civilians is a flagrant violation of the peace agreement.

民間人を襲撃する行為は、平和協定に公然と違反している。

5.His failure to turn his attention to flagrant wastes of public money is inexcusable.

公的資金の公然とした浪費に気づかなかったのは許せない。