occupy
英 ['ɒkjʊpaɪ]
美 ['ɑkjupaɪ]
語源
占有するoc-、前方に、向かって、-cup、つかむ、保持する、保持する、語源的にはcapableと同じ、参加する。すなわち、押収された、所有された、派生的に占有する、占有する。
英語の語源
- occupy
- occupy: [14] Occupy comes via Anglo-Norman *occupier from Latin occupāre ‘seize’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix ob- and capere ‘take’ (source of English capture, chase, etc). In the 16th and 17th centuries it was used in English for ‘have sex (with)’ (‘as king Edwin occupied Alfgifa his concubine’, John Bale, English Votaries 1546), and fell temporarily out of ‘polite’ usage: as Doll Tearsheet complained in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV 1597, ‘A captain! God’s light, these villains will make the word ‘captain’ as odious as the word ‘occupy’, which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted’.
=> captive, capture, chase - occupy (v.)
- mid-14c., "to take possession of," also "to take up space or time, employ (someone)," irregularly borrowed from Old French occuper "occupy (a person or place), hold, seize" (13c.) or directly from Latin occupare "take over, seize, take into possession, possess, occupy," from ob "over" (see ob-) + intensive form of capere "to grasp, seize" (see capable). The final syllable of the English word is difficult to explain, but it is as old as the record; perhaps from a modification made in Anglo-French. During 16c.-17c. a common euphemism for "have sexual intercourse with" (sense attested from early 15c.), which caused it to fall from polite usage.
"A captaine? Gods light these villaines wil make the word as odious as the word occupy, which was an excellent good worde before it was il sorted." [Doll Tearsheet in "2 Henry IV"]
Related: Occupied; occupying.
例文
- 1. U.S.forces now occupy a part of the country.
- アメリカ軍は現在、同国の一部を占領している。
- 2.This chalenge will occupy Europe for a generation or more.
- これは、今後20、30年以上の間にヨーロッパが直面しなければならない課題です。
- 3.I had other matters to occupy me，during the day at least.
- 少なくとも昼間は他にやることがあります。
- 4.We occupy a quality position in the market place.
- 私たちは市場で上位に位置しています。
- 5.Frances invited them to occupy the upstairs of her home.
- フランシスは彼らを彼女の家の上の階に招待した。