humble

• adj.控えめな；謙遜な；（地位や階級が）低い；大きくない
• vt. 謙虚にする；（特に強敵を）簡単に打ち負かす；低い声で話す

古フランス語のhumble（謙虚な）、ラテン語のhumilis（埃っぽい）から。謙虚なパイを食べる、償う、謝罪するという慣用句は、umbles、動物の内臓、語源的にはloin、lumbarと同じに由来する。 動物の内臓は、昔は下層階級の食べ物に属し、使用人や奴隷など身分の低い人に食べさせていた。それゆえ、この言葉の意味の由来となった。同時に、umblesはほとんどの人にとって奇妙な言葉であり、その意味がhumbleと一致することから、スペルは最終的にhumbleに引き継がれた。スペルは最終的にhumbleに取って代わられた。文字bを挿入し、数、numerateを比較する。

humble

humble: [13] Etymologically, humble means ‘close to the ground’. It comes via Old French umble from Latin humilis ‘low, lowly’. This was a derivative of humus ‘earth’, which is related to English chameleon and human and was itself acquired by English in the 18th century. In postclassical times the verb humiliāre was formed from humilis, and English gets humiliate [16] from it.
=> chameleon, human, humiliate, humus

humble (adj.)

mid-13c., from Old French humble, earlier humele, from Latin humilis "lowly, humble," literally "on the ground," from humus "earth." Senses of "not self-asserting" and "of low birth or rank" were both in Middle English Related: Humbly; humbleness.

Don't be so humble; you're not that great. [Golda Meir]

To eat humble pie (1830) is from umble pie (1640s), pie made from umbles "edible inner parts of an animal" (especially deer), considered a low-class food. The similar sense of similar-sounding words (the "h" of humble was not pronounced then) converged in the pun. Umbles, meanwhile, is Middle English numbles "offal" (with loss of n- through assimilation into preceding article).

humble (v.)

late 14c. in the intransitive sense of "to render oneself humble;" late 15c. in the transitive sense of "to lower (someone) in dignity;" see humble (adj.). Related: Humbled; humbling.

1. Now experts are extolling the virtues of the humble potato.

現在、専門家たちは見かけ倒しのジャガイモの様々なメリットを賛美している。

2.There are restaurants，both humble and expensive，that specialize in them.

これらの料理を専門に作るレストランは、目立たないものもあれば高価なものもある。

3.Spyros Latsis started his career as a humble fisherman in the Aegean.

スピロス?ラツィスの最初の職業はエーゲ海の卑しい漁師だった。

4.He is still the butt of cruel jokes about his humble origins.

彼は依然として出身が低いために冷酷に笑われている。

5.Anson was forced to eat humble pie and publicly apologise to her.

Ansonは彼女に謝罪を強要された。