king

• n. 王；最も強力な；王の駒
• vi. 支配する；王になる
• vt...を王にする
• adj. 主要な、最も重要な、最大の
• n. （王）人の名前；（ドイツ語、英語、ポルトガル語、チェコ語、スペイン語）Jin；（中国語）Jin（北京語 - ウィトマ）；（タイ語）Jing；（東南アジア諸国の中国語）Jing

古英語の cyning, king, monarch, ruler からの略語で、原語ゲルマン語の *kuningaz, kin, family, race, clan, -ing, 集合名詞接尾辞に対応する。後に王、君主に使われる。派生的な意味として、鍵、重要な、大きな、などがある。皇帝との違いを比較する。

king

king: [OE] The prehistoric Germanic ancestor of king (as of German k?nig, Dutch koning, Swedish konung, and Danish konge) was *kuninggaz. This seems to have been a derivative of *kunjam ‘race, people’ (source of English kin). If it was, king means etymologically ‘descendant of the race, offspring of the people’.
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king (n.)

Old English cyning "king, ruler," from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz (cognates: Dutch koning, Old Norse konungr, Danish konge, Old Saxon and Old High German kuning, Middle High German künic, German K?nig). Possibly related to Old English cynn "family, race" (see kin), making a king originally a "leader of the people;" or from a related root suggesting "noble birth," making a king originally "one who descended from noble birth." The sociological and ideological implications render this a topic of much debate.

Finnish kuningas "king," Old Church Slavonic kunegu "prince" (Russian knyaz, Bohemian knez), Lithuanian kunigas "clergyman" are loans from Germanic.

As leon is the king of bestes. [John Gower, "Confessio Amantis," 1390]

In Old English, used for names of chiefs of Anglian and Saxon tribes or clans, then of the states they founded. Also extended to British and Danish chiefs they fought. The chess piece so called from early 15c.; the playing card from 1560s; use in checkers/draughts first recorded 1820. Applied in nature to species deemed remarkably big or dominant (such as king crab, 1690s). In marketing, king-size is from 1939, originally of cigarettes.

[I]t was [Eugene] Field who haunted the declining years of Creston Clarke with his review of that actor's Lear. ... Said he, "Mr. Clarke played the King all the evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace." ["Theatre Magazine," January 1922]

1. The King made major concessions to end the confrontation with his people.

その臣民との衝突を終わらせるために、国王は大きな譲歩をした。

2.The king 's indulgence towards his sons angered the business community.

王の息子たちへの甘い容貌はビジネス界を怒らせた。

3.It is my destiny one day to be king .

私はいつか王になる運命にある。

4.The King has merely given the politicians enough rope to hang themselves.

国王はこれらの政治家に自縛された縄を与えたにすぎない。

5.The last French king was Louis Philippe,who abdicated in 1848.

フランス最後の国王は1848年に劣位したルイ?フィリップだった。