英単語

founderの意味・使い方・発音

founder

英 ['faʊndə(r)] 美 ['faʊndɚ]
  • vi. 失敗する;沈没する;崩壊する;跛行する。
  • vt. 破壊する;倒壊させる;崩壊させる
  • n. 創設者;建設者;砂を回す人

語源


創設者

foundから、基礎を築く、創造する。

英語の語源


founder
founder: [13] Etymologically, founder means ‘sink to the bottom’. Its history can be traced back to Latin fundus ‘bottom’ (source also of English found ‘establish’, fund, and fundamental), which formed the basis of a Vulgar Latin verb *fundorāre. This passed into Old French fondrer, which meant ‘submerge’, but also, by extension, ‘fall in ruins, collapse’ – both of which groups of senses English took over in founder.
=> found, fund, fundamental
founder (v.)
early 14c. "to send to the bottom" (transitive); late 14c., "to sink or fall" (intransitive), from Old French fondrer "collapse; submerge, sink, fall to the bottom" (Modern French fondrier), from fond "bottom" (12c.), from Latin fundus "bottom, foundation" (see fund (n.)). Not especially of ships in Middle English, where it typically meant "fall to the ground." Figurative use from 1580s. Related: Foundered; foundering.
founder (n.1)
"one who establishes, one who sets up or institutes (something)," mid-14c., from Anglo-French fundur, Old French fondeor "founder, originator" (Modern French fondateur), from Latin fundator, agent noun from fundare "to lay a foundation" (see found (v.1)). Fem. form foundress is from early 15c.; also fundatrix (1540s).
founder (n.2)
"one who casts metal," c. 1400, agent noun from found (v.2).

例文


1. The teacher training college put up a place to the college 's founder .
その教師養成学院は、同学院の創立者のために記念プレートを立てた。

2.He is the founder of International Sports Management Limited.
彼は国際スポーツマネジメント株式会社の創業者です。

3.Without the founder 's drive and direction,the company gradually languished.
創業者の闘志と導きがなくなり、会社は徐々に没落に向かっている。

4.He was the founder and guiding spirit of New York 's Shakespeare Festival.
ニューヨークシェイクスピア演劇祭の創始者であり指導者である。

5.Mr Meridor 's father was a comrade-in-arms of the party 's founder .
メリド氏の父は同党創始者の戦友である。

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