impの意味・使い方・発音

imp

英 [ɪmp] 美 [ɪmp]

imp インプ、小悪魔。

語源は不明。

imp: imp: [OE] Old English impe meant ‘new shoot, sapling’. Its ultimate source was medieval Latin impotus ‘graft’, a borrowing from Greek émphutos, which itself was an adjective derived from the verb emphúein ‘implant’. In the early Middle English period it began to be transferred from plants to people, carrying its connotations of ‘newness’ or ‘youth’ with it, so that by the 14th century it had come to mean ‘child’.

And in the 16th century, in a development similar to that which produced the now obsolete sense of limb ‘naughty child’, it was applied to ‘mischievous children, children of the Devil’, and hence to ‘mischievous or evil spirits’.
imp (n.): Old English impe, impa "young shoot, graft," from impian "to graft," probably an early West Germanic borrowing from Vulgar Latin *imptus, from Late Latin impotus "implanted," from Greek emphytos, verbal adjective formed from emphyein "implant," from em- "in" + phyein "to plant" (see physic).

Sense of "child, offspring" (late 14c.) came from transfer of word from plants to people, with notion of "newness" preserved. Modern meaning "little devil" (1580s) is from common use in pejorative phrases like imp of Satan.
Suche appereth as aungelles, but in very dede they be ymps of serpentes. ["The Pilgrimage of Perfection," 1526]

2.METHODS？？-Lactamase genes including TEM、SHV、OXA-10、PER、VEB、GES、CARB、 IMP 、VIM、SPM、GIM、DHA、FOX、MOX and oprD 2 were detected by PCR amplification in 33 PAE isolates.: 方法33株の緑膿菌に対して、PCRを用いてβ-ラクタム系薬物耐性関連遺伝子（TEM、SHV、OXA-10群、PER、VEB、GES、CARB、 IMP 、VIM、SPM、GIM、DHA、FOX、MOX、OprD 2).

3.Is the imp altogether evil？

この小僧は完全に邪悪ではないか。

4."You 're pretty sharp，little imp ！"

あなたはとても利口ですね！

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