pitch

• vi. 投げる；テントを張る；倒れる。
• vt.テントを張る；投げる；場所を決める；タールを塗る；キャンプする；前に倒れる
• n.アスファルト；ピッチ；程度；樹脂；傾斜；ピッチ；コート

中英語のpikken（刺す、突き刺す）が語源で、語源的にはpeck（突き刺す）、pike（突き刺す）と同じ。 throw（投げる）、toss（投げる）、pitch（投げる）、tilt（傾ける）、その他多くの意味に派生。tを入れ、bake, batch, piece, patchと比較する。

古英語のpic, pitch, tarから、ラテン語のpix, pitch, tarから、PIE*pik, turpentine, rosinから、PIE*pei, fat, turpentine, sapから、語源はfat, pineと同じ。

pitch (n.2)

"resinous substance, wood tar," late 12c., pich, from Old English pic "pitch," from a Germanic borrowing (Old Saxon and Old Frisian pik, Middle Dutch pik, Dutch pek, Old High German pek, German Pech, Old Norse bik) of Latin pix (genitive picis) "pitch," which according to Watkins is from a PIE root *pik- "pitch" (cognates: Greek pissa, Lithuanian pikis, Old Church Slavonic piklu "pitch"), but according to Pokorny this is from the same PIE root as pine (n.). The English word was applied to pine resins from late 14c. Pitch-black is attested from 1590s; pitch-dark from 1680s.

pitch (v.1)

c. 1200, "to thrust in, fasten, settle," probably from an unrecorded Old English *piccean, related to prick (v.). The original past tense was pight. Sense of "set upright," as in pitch a tent (late 13c.), is from notion of "driving in" the pegs. Meaning to incline forward and downward" is from 1510s. Meaning "throw (a ball)" evolved late 14c. from that of "hit the mark." Musical sense is from 1670s. Of ships, "to plunge" in the waves, 1620s. To pitch in "work vigorously" is from 1847, perhaps from farm labor. Related: Pitched; pitching.

pitch (n.1)

1520s, "something that is pitched," from pitch (v.1). Meaning "act of throwing" is attested from 1833. Meaning "act of plunging headfirst" is from 1762; sense of "slope, degree, inclination" is from 1540s; musical sense is from 1590s; but the connection of these is obscure. Sales pitch in the modern commercial advertising sense is from 1943, American English, perhaps from the baseball sense.

pitch (v.2)

"to cover with pitch," Old English pician, from the source of pitch (n.2).

1. Footballers in whopping great studded boots walk over the pitch .

ハンサムな靴を履いたサッカー選手がコートに入ってきた。

2.Campaigning is reaching fever pitch for elections on November 6.

11月6日の選挙に向けた選挙運動が徐々に白熱化している。

3.The ground staff do all they can to prepare the pitch .

グラウンド管理者は全力でグラウンドを整備している。

4.The match is off because of a waterlogged pitch .

場所に水が溜まりすぎて試合がキャンセルされた。

5.Prue invited the magazine 's editor to lunch and made her pitch .

普呂は同誌の編集者を招いて昼食を共にし、自分のアイデアを売り込む。