insect: [17] The Greek word for ‘insect’ was éntomon (source of English entomology [18]). It was derived from entémnein ‘cut up’, a compound verb formed from en- ‘in’ and témnein ‘cut’ (a close relative of English tome), and denoted literally ‘creature divided up into segments’. The term was translated literally into Latin as insectum (originally the past participle of insecāre, a compound verb formed from inand secāre ‘cut’), and seems to have been introduced into English in Philemon Holland’s translation of Pliny’s Natural History 1601. => section
insect (n.)
c. 1600, from Latin (animal) insectum "(animal) with a notched or divided body," literally "cut into," from neuter past participle of insectare "to cut into, to cut up," from in- "into" (see in- (2)) + secare "to cut" (see section (n.)). Pliny's loan-translation of Greek entomon "insect" (see entomology), which was Aristotle's term for this class of life, in reference to their "notched" bodies.
First in English in 1601 in Holland's translation of Pliny. Translations of Aristotle's term also form the usual word for "insect" in Welsh (trychfil, from trychu "cut" + mil "animal"), Serbo-Croatian (zareznik, from rezati "cut"), Russian (nasekomoe, from sekat "cut"), etc.
例文
1. Honeybees use one of the most sophisticated communication systems of any insect .
ミツバチ間で使用されるコミュニケーション方法は、昆虫の中で最も複雑な方法の1つです。
2.Many kinds of insect find their mates by scent.
多くの昆虫がにおいを通して交尾相手を見つけた。
3.Chambers 'voice droned，maddening as an insect around his head.
チェンバースはずっと彼の耳元でブンブン言っていて、彼は気が狂いそうになった。
4.The insect 's wings are almost transparent.
この昆虫の翼はほとんど透明である。
5.a species of insect previously unknown to science