generous

• adj.寛大な、寛大な; 大らかな; 優雅な

generateと語源は同じで、子孫を残すという意味のgenが語源。 本来は高貴に生まれることで、肯定的な意味合いを持つ。

generous

generous: [16] Generous comes via Old French genereux from Latin generōsus, which originally meant ‘of noble birth’ (a sense which survived in English into the late 17th century – Richard Knolles, for instance, in his General history of the Turks 1603, wrote of ‘many knights of generous extraction’). It was a derivative of genus in the sense ‘birth, stock, race’, and harks back semantically to its ultimate source in the Indo-European base *gen- ‘produce’ (see GENERAL). Its semantic progression from ‘nobly born’ through ‘noble-minded, magnanimous’ to ‘liberal in giving’ took place largely in Latin.
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generous (adj.)

1580s, "of noble birth," from Middle French généreux (14c.), from Latin generosus "of noble birth," figuratively "magnanimous, generous," from genus (genitive generis) "race, stock" (see genus). Secondary senses of "unselfish" (1690s) and "plentiful" (1610s) in English were present in French and in Latin. Related: Generously; generousness.

1. Not everyone thinks that the government is being particularly generous .

すべての人が政府が特に寛大だと思っているわけではありません。

2.It 's the wages that count.Not over- generous ，but there you are.

重要なのは工賃で、気前よくしすぎないことだが、仕方がない。

3.He 's generous and，you know，very nice，very polite.

彼は気前がよくて、あなたは知っていて、とても親切で、礼儀正しいです。

4.He was generous enough to congratulate his successor on his decision.

彼は後継者の決定を大いに祝った。

5.Francis poured a generous measure of the whisky into a fresh glass.

フランシスはきれいなグラスにウイスキーをたくさん注いだ。