mess

• n. 混乱；水筒、混乱；苦境；不潔さ
• vt.めちゃくちゃにする；汚す；台無しにする；食事にする
• vi.めちゃくちゃにする；汚す；遊ぶ
• n.（メッシ）人の名前；（ド、ロ）メッシ

古フランス語のmes（食べ物の一部、食事）から。ラテン語のmittere（置く、送り出す）が語源で、語源的にはmission（使命、使命）と同じ。その後、残飯が注がれる場所、豚の餌などを指すようになり、最終的に汚い、雑然という意味に派生した。

mess

mess: [13] Mess comes via Old French mes from late Latin missus, a derivative of the verb mittere ‘send’ (source of English admit, mission, transmit, etc). This meant ‘sending, placement’, and its original metaphorical application was to a ‘round or heat of a contest’, but it was also used for a ‘course of a meal’, and this was the sense in which it originally entered English.

Traces of the food connection survive in the mess of pottage (literally a ‘dish of porridge or gruel’ made from lentils) for which Esau sold his birthright to Jacob, and in the sense ‘communal eating place’ (as in ‘sergeants’ mess’), which developed in the 16th century. But the main present-day meaning, ‘disorderly thing or condition’, did not emerge until as recently as the 19th century, apparently based on the notion of a mess as a ‘dish of assorted foodstuffs dumped unceremoniously and without thought on to a plate’.
=> admit, commit, mission, permit, transmit

mess (n.)

c. 1300, "food for one meal, pottage," from Old French mes "portion of food, course at dinner," from Late Latin missus "course at dinner," literally "a placing, a putting (on a table, etc.)," from past participle of mittere "to put, place," in classical Latin "to send, let go" (see mission).

Meaning "communal eating place" (especially a military one) is first attested 1530s, from earlier sense of "company of persons eating together" (early 15c.), originally a group of four. Sense of "mixed food," especially for animals, (1738) led to contemptuous use for "jumble, mixed mass" (1828) and figurative sense of "state of confusion" (1834), as well as "condition of untidiness" (1851). General use for "a quantity" of anything is attested by 1830. Meaning "excrement" (of animals) is from 1903.

mess (v.)

late 14c., "serve up in portions," from mess (n.). Meaning "take one's meals" is from 1701; that of "make a mess" is from 1853. Related: Messed; messing. To mess with "interfere, get involved" is from 1903; mess up "make a mistake, get in trouble" is from 1933 (earlier "make a mess of," 1909), both originally American English colloquial.

1. England 's European Championship plans are in a right mess .

イングランドの欧州選手権作戦はめちゃくちゃだった。

2.A waiter mopped up the mess as best he could.

ウェイターがスパッタした食べ物を消すように努力した。

3.Except for the remarkably tidy kitchen，the place was a mess .

キッチンが特に清潔であることを除いて、ここは散らかっている。

4.The wrong shampoo can leave curly hair in a tangled mess .

不適切なシャンプーはカールを乱れた塊にしてしまう。

5.I have to get to the bottom of this mess .

この混乱の原因を究明しなければなりません。