neat

• adj.器用な; きちんとした; 上品な; 端正な; 汚れのない; 滑らかな

ラテン語のnitere（輝く、照らす）から。PIE*nei（輝く）の語源で、語源的にはラテン語のeniteo（輝く、卓越する）と同じ。語源はラテン語のeniteo「輝く、秀でる」と同じ。cleanと比較される。

neat

neat: English has two words neat. The older is now virtually obsolete, while the commoner is a comparatively recent introduction. Neat ‘tidy’ [16] was borrowed from French net ‘neat, clean’. This goes back to Latin nitidus ‘elegant, shiny’, a derivative of the verb nītēre ‘shine’. English originally acquired the word in the 14th century as net ‘clean, tidy’ (from which the modern net ‘with deductions’ developed).

This had a 16thcentury derivative netty, which may be the source of modern English natty [18]. Neat ‘cow, ox’ [OE] is now encountered only in gastronomic contexts, such as ‘neat’s foot jelly’, and even then is an archaism. It goes back to prehistoric Germanic *nautam, a derivative of a base meaning ‘use’, and hence reflects (like cattle itself) the original notion of cattle as ‘useful property’.
=> natty, net

neat (adj.)

1540s, "clean, free from dirt," from Anglo-French neit, Middle French net "clear, pure" (12c.), from Latin nitidus "well-favored, elegant, trim," literally "gleaming," from nitere "to shine," from PIE root *nei- "to shine" (cognates: Middle Irish niam "gleam, splendor," niamda "shining;" Old Irish noib "holy," niab "strength;" Welsh nwyfiant "gleam, splendor").

Meaning "inclined to be tidy" is from 1570s. Of liquor, "straight," c. 1800, from meaning "unadulterated" (of wine), which is first attested 1570s. Informal sense of "very good" first recorded 1934 in American English; variant neato is teenager slang, first recorded 1968. Related: Neatly; neatness.

neat (n.)

"ox, bullock, cow," Old English neat "ox, beast, animal," from Proto-Germanic *nautam "thing of value, possession" (cognates: Old Frisian nat, Middle Dutch noot, Old High German noz, Old Norse naut), from PIE root *neud- "to make use of, enjoy."

1. Neat solutions are not easily found to these issues.

これらの問題を解決するための巧妙な方法を見つけるのは難しい。

2.A rather neat option allows you to design your own fiendish puzzle.

てきぱきと選択肢を作れば、解けにくいパズルを自分でデザインすることができます。

3.He poured himself a brandy and swallowed it neat .

彼は自分にブランデーを1杯注いで、水を入れずに飲んでしまった。

4. "Make the punishment fit the crime.「How neat and tidy it sounded.

「罪罰は相当」、これはなんと簡潔に聞こえることか。

5.The rest of the room was neat and impersonal.

部屋の残りの部分は清潔で、パーソナルカラーは一切ありません。