pedal

• vi. ペダルを漕ぐ；乗る
• n. ペダル；フットレスト
• vt.（自転車に）乗る；......ペダルを漕ぐ
• adj.足；ペダル

PIE*ped,footから。語源はfoot,bipedと同じ。派生はbicycle pedal。

pedal

pedal: [17] Pedal is one of a group of English words which go back to Latin pēs ‘foot’ or its Romance descendants (to which English foot is related). Others include impede [17], pedestal [16] (which comes via French from Old Italian piedestallo, a conflation of pie di stallo ‘foot of a stall’), pedestrian [18], pedicure [19], pedigree, and pedometer [18].
=> foot, impede, pawn, pedestal, pedestrian, pedigree

pedal (n.)

1610s, "lever (on an organ) worked by foot," from French pédale "feet, trick with the feet," from Italian pedale "treadle, pedal," from Late Latin pedale "(thing) of the foot," neuter of Latin pedalis "of the foot," from pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)).

Extended to various mechanical contrivances by 1789. Pedal steel guitar is from 1969. Pedal-pushers "type of women's trousers suitable for bicycling" is from 1944.

When college girls took to riding bicycles in slacks, they first rolled up one trouser leg, then rolled up both. This whimsy has now produced a trim variety of long shorts, called "pedal pushers." ["Life," Aug. 28, 1944]

pedal (v.)

1866 of musical organs, 1888 of bicycles, from pedal (n.). Related: Pedaled; pedaling.

1. The harder the brake pedal is pressed，the greater the car 's deceleration.

ブレーキを強く踏むほど、車は減速します。

2.Your foot falls off the pedal and you stall the car.

足がペダルから離れると、車はエンストします。

3.He refused to soft- pedal an investigation into the scandal.

彼はこのスキャンダルに対する調査力の低下を拒否した。

4.He appeared to back- pedal on that statement.

彼は声明の中で言ったことを撤回しようとしているように見える。

5.The protests have forced the government to back- pedal on the new tax.

抗議活動により、政府は新たな税目の撤廃を迫られている。