menace: [13] Latin mināx meant ‘threatening’ (it was formed from a base *min- ‘jut’ which also produced English eminent and prominent, and hence etymologically denoted ‘overhanging’). From it was derived the noun minācia ‘threatening things’, which passed into English via Old French manace. The closely related demeanour comes ultimately from a word denoting ‘drive animals with threats’. => eminent, prominent
menace (n.)
c. 1300, "declaration of hostile intent," also "act of threatening," from Old French menace "menace, threat" (9c.), from Vulgar Latin minacia "threat, menace" (also source of Spanish amenaza, Italian minaccia), singular of Latin minaci? "threatening things," from minax (genitive minacis) "threatening," from minari "threaten, jut, project," from min? "threats, projecting points," from PIE root *men- (2) "to project." Applied to persons from 1936.
menace (v.)
c. 1300, from Old French menacer "threaten, urge" (11c.), Anglo-French manasser, from Vulgar Latin *minaciare "to threaten," from minacia (see menace (n.)). Related: Menaced; menacing.
例文
1. The European states retained a latent capability to menace Britain 's own security.
ヨーロッパ諸国は依然としてイギリス自身の安全を脅かす潜在能力を持っている。
2.There is a pervading sense of menace .
は危機に瀕しているような感じがします。
3.You 're a menace to my privacy，Kenworthy.
ケンワシー、あなたは本当に嫌だ、私のプライバシーを侵害するなんて。
4.Excessive drinking is a social menace .
過度な飲酒は社会公害である。
5.a new initiative aimed at beating the menace of illegal drugs