measles

• n. [内科] 麻疹; 風疹.

中英語のmasel（伝染病）、-s（複数形の接尾辞）、原語ゲルマン語*mas（斑点、血斑）からのスペル置換。

measles

measles: [14] Measles means literally ‘spots, blemishes’. The word was originally borrowed from Middle Dutch māsel ‘blemish’, which went back to a prehistoric Germanic base *mas- ‘spot, blemish, excrescence’. The earliest English form of the word was thus maseles, and the change to measles (which began in the 14th century) may have been due to association with the now obsolete mesel ‘leper’, a descendant of Latin miser ‘wretched, unfortunate’ (source of English misery).

measles (n.)

infectious disease, early 14c., plural of Middle English masel, perhaps from Middle Dutch masel "blemish" (in plural "measles") or Middle Low German masele, from Proto-Germanic *mas- "spot, blemish" (cognates: Old High German masla "blood-blister," German Masern "measles").

There might have been an Old English cognate, but if so it has not been recorded. Form probably influenced by Middle English mesel "leprous" (late 13c.).

1. She fell ill with measles .

彼女は麻疹で倒れた。

2.When I was five I got measles .

私は5歳の時に麻疹を発症したことがあります。

3.Adults are often immune to German measles .

成人は風疹に免疫力を持つことが多い。

4.The doctor told her to watch out for symptoms of measles .

医師は麻疹の症状に注意するように言った。

5.The doctor is quite definite about Tom having measles .

医師はトムが麻疹にかかったことを非常に肯定している。