gradual
英 ['grædʒʊəl]
美 ['ɡrædʒuəl]
- adj.徐々に、穏やかに
- n. ミサ昇天のための賛美歌集
英語の語源
- gradual
- gradual: [16] Latin grādus ‘step’ has been a remarkably prolific source of English words. Beside grade [16] itself, it has contributed the derivatives gradation [16], gradient [19], gradual (from medieval Latin graduālis, literally ‘proceeding by steps’), graduate [15], and retrograde [14]. The derived verb gradī ‘walk, go’ has produced ingredient, and its past participial stem gress- has given, among others, aggression, congress, digress [16], progress [15], and transgress [16].
And degrade and degree are of the same parentage, the latter filtered through Old French. The origins of Latin grādus itself are not known.
=> aggression, congress, degrade, degree, digress, grade, gradient, ingredient, progress, transgress - gradual (adj.)
- early 15c., "having steps or ridges," from Medieval Latin gradualis, from Latin gradus "step" (see grade (n.)). Meaning "arranged by degrees" is from 1540s; that of "taking place by degrees" is from 1690s.
例文
- 1. The roads are built to accommodate gradual temperature changes.
- これらの道路を建設する際に温度の漸次変化を考慮した。
- 2.He hopes for a gradual disconection from the federation.
- 彼は連盟から徐々に抜け出すことを望んでいる。
- 3.The greatest hope for reform is the gradual spread of information.
- 改革への最大の希望は、情報が徐々に伝播されることである。
- 4.Weaning should be a gradual process.
- 離乳は一歩一歩。
- 5.a gradual change in the climate
- 気候の漸次変化