miser

• n. (石油工学で使われる)坑井掘削機; miser; a well-drilling machine (坑井掘削機)
• n. (Miser) 人名; (Eng.) Meiser; (Dev.) Miser; (S.) Misel

ラテン語のmiser（惨めな、哀れな、みじめな）から。おそらくギリシャ語のmisos（嫌な、不快な）が語源で、語源的にはmisanthrope（人間嫌い）と同じ。後に、このような人々は哀れな人物の代表とみなされたため、miser（惨めな）という言葉が派生した。

miser (n.)

1540s, "miserable person, wretch," from Latin miser (adj.) "unhappy, wretched, pitiable, in distress," of unknown origin. Original sense now obsolete; main modern meaning of "money-hoarding person" recorded 1560s, from presumed unhappiness of such people.

Besides general wretchedness, the Latin word connoted also "intense erotic love" (compare slang got it bad "deeply infatuated") and hence was a favorite word of Catullus. In Greek a miser was kyminopristes, literally "a cumin seed splitter." In Modern Greek, he might be called hekentabelones, literally "one who has sixty needles." The German word, filz, literally "felt," preserves the image of the felt slippers which the miser often wore in caricatures. Lettish mantrausis "miser" is literally "money-raker."

1. I 'm married to a miser .

守銭奴と結婚した。

2.The miser doesn 't like to part with his money.

守銭奴はお金を使うのを惜しんでいる。

3.The miser was untouched by the poor man 's story.

そのけちん坊はその貧しい人の記述に無関心だった。

4. They say [ It is said that ] he's a miser .

彼はけちん坊だそうだ。

5.The miser was an incarnation of greed.

その守銭奴は貪欲の化身だった。