ラテン語のparaphernaから、妻の持参金以外の独占財産、para-, beside, besides, -phern, to bringから、語源的にはpheromone, bringと同じ。
英語の語源
paraphernalia
paraphernalia: [17] In former times, when a woman married her property was divided into two categories: her dowry, which became the property of her husband, and the rest. The legal term for the latter was paraphernalia, which came via medieval Latin from late Latin parapherna, a borrowing from Greek parápherna. And the Greek word in turn was a compound formed from pará ‘beside’ and pherné ‘dowry’. It is a measure of the light in which these remaining odds and ends were viewed that by the early 18th century the term paraphernalia had come to be used dismissively for ‘equipment’ or ‘impedimenta’.
paraphernalia (n.)
1650s, "a woman's property besides her dowry," from Medieval Latin paraphernalia (short for paraphernalia bona "paraphernal goods"), neuter plural of paraphernalis (adj.), from Late Latin parapherna "a woman's property besides her dowry," from Greek parapherna, neuter plural, from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + pherne "dowry," related to pherein "to carry" (see infer). Meaning "equipment, apparatus" is first attested 1791, from notion of odds and ends.
例文
1. The public don 't necessarily want the paraphernalia of a full hearing.
公衆は必ずしも包括的な聴聞の複雑な手続きを望んでいるわけではない。
2.an electric kettle and all the paraphernalia for makitea and coffee
電気ケトルおよびお茶を入れてコーヒーを入れるための道具セット
3.Can you move all your paraphernalia out of the way？
すべての持ち物を移してもいいですか？
4.Get rid of all cigaretes and astrays and other paraphernalia associated with smoking.
すべてのタバコ、灰皿、タバコに関連する他のものを捨てます。
5.Theatrical paraphernalia had been provided over and above her care.