petitionの意味・使い方・発音

petition

英 [pɪ'tɪʃ(ə)n] 美 [pə'tɪʃən]

請願

ラテン語の petere「努力する」「求める」「願う」「嘆願する」、PIE* pete「展開する」「追求する」から。

petition: petition: see repeat
petition (n.): early 14c., "a supplication or prayer, especially to a deity," from Old French peticion "request, petition" (12c., Modern French pétition) and directly from Latin petitionem (nominative petitio) "a blow, thrust, attack, aim; a seeking, searching," in law "a claim, suit," noun of action from past participle stem of petere "to make for, go to; attack, assail; seek, strive after; ask for, beg, beseech, request; fetch; derive; demand, require," from PIE root *pet-, also *pete- "to rush; to fly" (cognates: Sanskrit pattram "wing, feather, leaf," patara- "flying, fleeting;" Hittite pittar "wing;" Greek piptein "to fall," potamos "rushing water," pteryx "wing;" Old English feeer "feather;" Latin penna "feather, wing;" Old Church Slavonic pero "feather;" Old Welsh eterin "bird"). Meaning "formal written request to a superior (earthly)" is attested from early 15c.
petition (v.): c. 1600, from petition (n.). Related: Petitioned; petitioning.

1. His lawyers filed a petition for all charges to be dropped.: 彼の弁護士はすべての告訴を取り消すように求めた。

2.Public employees，teachers and liberals are circulating a petition for his recall.: 公務員、教師、リベラル派の人々がリコールを求める嘆願書を配布している。

3.We recently presented the government with a petition signed by 4500 people.: 最近、4500人の署名があった嘆願書を政府に提出した。

4.Democrats say the petition will eviscerate state government.

民主党は、今回の請願が州政府を再建すると言っている。