kilo
英 ['kiːləʊ]
美 ['kilo]
- n. キログラム
- n.(キロ)人名;(アラブ)キロ.
英語の語源
- kilo
- kilo: [19] Khílioi was Greek for a ‘thousand’. It was adopted in French in the 1790s as the prefix for ‘thousand’ in expressions of quantity under the new metric system, and various compound forms (kilogram, kilolitre, kilometre, etc) began to find their way into English from the first decade of the 19th century onwards. The first recorded instance of kilo being used in English for kilogram dates from 1870.
- kilo (n.)
- 1870, shortening of kilogram. Slang shortening key (in drug trafficking) is attested from 1968.
例文
- 1. The price of grapes had shot up to 32 francs a kilo .
- ブドウの価格は1キログラム当たり32フランと大幅に上昇した。
- 2.The caves extend for some 18 kilo -metres.
- それらの洞窟は深さ約18キロ。
- 3.These apples are selling at 40 pence a kilo .
- これらのリンゴの販売価格は1 kgあたり40ペンス.
- 4.China has bought 12 Russian Kilo -class diesel attack submarines.
- 中国はロシアのキロロ級（ Kilo -class）ディーゼル攻撃潜水艦12隻を購入した。 dd>
- 5.The work kilo is often used as a prefix.
Kilo は単語の接頭辞としてよく使われる。-