privilege

• n. 特権; 恩典; 基本的権利
• 特権を与える；免除する

ラテン語のprivategium「私法」、privus「個人」、-leg「法」、legal「法律」、legal「法律」と同じ語源から。

privilege (n.)

mid-12c. "grant, commission" (recorded earlier in Old English, but as a Latin word), from Old French privilege "right, priority, privilege" (12c.) and directly from Latin privilegium "law applying to one person, bill of law in favor of or against an individual," later "privilege," from privus "individual" (see private (adj.)) + lex (genitive legis) "law" (see legal (adj.)). Meaning "advantage granted" is from mid-14c. in English.

privilege (v.)

early 14c., privilegen, "to invest with a privilege," from privilege (n.) and from Old French privilegier (13c.), from Medieval Latin privilegare, from Latin privilegium. Related: Privileged; priviledging.

1. Pironi was the son of privilege and wealth,and it showed.

ピローニは、お金と勢いのある豪族の出身であることがわかります。

2.She was cocooned in a private world of privilege .

彼女は世間から隔絶された特権の世界に住んでいる。

3.It must be a privilege to know such a man.

このような人を知っているのはきっと光栄だと思います。

4.He arrogated the privilege to himself alone.

彼は自分のために特権をだまし取った。

5.a bastion of male privilege

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