mediocre

• adj.平凡な、ありふれた、適度な

ラテン語のmediocris, halfway, medium, commonから、medius, middleから、語源的にはmiddleと同じ、ocris, peak, ギザギザの山、語源的にはacrobat, acridと同じ、後にさらに侮蔑的に、平凡な、貧しいを表す。同義語のmeanと比較する。

mediocre

mediocre: [16] Etymologically, mediocre means ‘halfway up a mountain’. It comes from Latin mediocris ‘of middle height, in a middle state’, which was formed from medius ‘middle’ (source of English medium) and ocris ‘rough stony mountain’.
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mediocre (adj.)

1580s, from Middle French médiocre (16c.), from Latin mediocris "of middling height or state, moderate, ordinary," figuratively "mediocre, mean, inferior," originally "halfway up a mountain," from medius "middle" (see medial (adj.)) + ocris "jagged mountain" (cognate with Greek okris "peak, point," Welsh ochr "corner, border," Latin acer "sharp;" see acrid). As a noun, "medicore thing or person," by 1834.

1. I thought the play was only mediocre .

この芝居は平凡な作品だと思います。

2.The student tried hard，but his work is mediocre .

この学生は勉強に苦労しているが、学業は平凡だ。

3.The critics condemned the play as mediocre .

評論家はその芝居を粗悪なものだと非難した。

4.Virginia was a perfectionist.She was just not prepared to settle for anything mediocre .

バージニアは完璧主義者で、彼女は普通で特色のないものを手に入れたくない。

5.Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.

怠け者凡人だけがその鍋料理の年代に未練を持っている。