incident

• n. 出来事; エピソード
• adj.[軽い]付随的な; 付随的な; 影響を受けやすい、付随する

偶発的な出来事、摩擦、衝突などを意味する。

incident

incident: [15] An incident is literally that which ‘befalls’. In common with accident and occident, and a wide range of other English words, from cadaver to occasion, it comes ultimately from Latin cadere ‘fall’. This was combined with the prefix in- ‘on’ to produce incidere ‘fall on’, hence ‘befall, happen to’. Its present participial stem incident- passed into English either directly or via French.

The use of a word that literally means ‘fall’ to denote the concept of ‘happening’ is quite a common phenomenon. It occurs also in befall and chance, and operates in other languages than English; Welsh digwydd ‘happen’, for instance, is derived from cwyddo ‘fall’.
=> accident, cadence, case, occasion

incident (n.)

early 15c., "something which occurs casually in connection with something else," from Middle French incident and directly from Latin incidentem (nominative incidens), present participle of incidere "happen, befall," from in- "on" + -cidere, comb. form of cadere "to fall" (see case (n.1)). Sense of "an occurrence viewed as a separate circumstance" is from mid-15c. Meaning "event that might trigger a crisis or political unrest" first attested 1913.

incident (adj.)

"conducive (to), contributing (to)," early 15c., from Middle French incident (adj.) or directly from Latin incidens, present participle of incidere (see incident (n.)).

1. A member of the security forces was killed in a sniping incident .

狙撃戦で安全部隊員が射殺された。

2.The violation of the graves is not the first such incident .

このような墓地破壊行為は初めてではない。

3.His abhorrence of racism led him to write The Algiers Motel Incident .

人種差別主義への憎しみが『アルジェモーテル事件』を書いた。

4.The idea that she witnessed this shameful incident meant nothing to him.

彼女はこの恥ずべき光景を目撃したが、それは彼にとって重要ではない。

5.The incident brings the total of people killed to fifteen.

今回の事故で死者総数は15人に達した。