pact

• n. 協定、条約、契約

ラテン語のpactum（協定、契約、条約）が語源で、PIE*pag（固定された）が語源。

pact

pact: see compact

pact (n.)

early 15c., from Old French pacte "agreement, treaty, compact" (14c.), from Latin pactum "agreement, contract, covenant," noun use of neuter past participle of pacisci "to covenant, to agree, make a treaty," from PIE root *pag- "fix, join together, unite, make firm" (cognates: Sanskrit pasa- "cord, rope," Avestan pas- "to fetter," Greek pegnynai "to fix, make firm, fast or solid," Latin pangere "to fix, to fasten," Slavonic pa? "wooden partition," Old English fegan "to join," fon "to catch seize").

1. A non-aggression pact will be signed between the two countries.

両国は相互不可侵条約に署名する。

2.Police refused to say if the couple died in a suicide pact .

警察は、この夫婦が一緒に自殺したのではないかという答えを拒否した。

3.He says this contract should not be patterned after the Deere pact .

彼はこの契約はディール協定を模倣すべきではないと言った。

4.Last month he signed a new non-aggression pact with Germany.

先月、ドイツと新たな相互不可侵条約を締結した。

5.The Auto Pact yoked Ontario into the United States economy.

＜自動車協定＞は、オンタリオを米国の経済システムに強引に組み入れた。