procure
英 [prə'kjʊə]
美 [prə'kjʊr]
- vt.入手する、獲得する；引き起こす
- vi.入手する
語源
調達する、努力して手に入れる。ラテン語のprocurare「世話をする」「世話をする」「管理する」「見守る」、pro-「進む」「表す」、-cur「世話をする」「世話をする」が語源で、語源的にはcure, pedicureと同じ。
英語の語源
- procure
- procure: [13] The -cure of procure goes back to Latin cūrāre ‘look after’, source of English cure. Combination with prō- ‘for’ produced prōcūrāre ‘look after on behalf of someone else, manage’, which English acquired via Old French procurer as procure. The main modern sense ‘obtain’ developed via ‘take care, take pains’ and ‘bring about by taking pains’. The agent noun derived from the Latin verb was prōcūrātor ‘manager, agent’; English adopted this as procurator [13], and subsequently contracted it to proctor [14]. A similar process of contraction lies behind proxy, which goes back to Latin prōcūrātiō.
=> cure, proctor, proxy - procure (v.)
- c. 1300, "bring about, cause, effect," from Old French procurer "care for, be occupied with; bring about, cause; acquire, provide" (13c.) and directly from Late Latin procurare "manage, take care of;" from pro- "in behalf of" (see pro-) + curare "care for" (see cure (v.)). Main modern sense "obtain; recruit" (late 14c.) is via "take pains to get" (mid-14c.). Meaning "to obtain (women) for sexual gratification" is attested from c. 1600. Related: Procured; procuring.
例文
- 1. The meat they 'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
- 彼らは手に入れた肉を飢えに持ってきた。
- 2.She managed to procure a ticket for the concert.
- 彼女はやっとコンサートの入場券を手に入れた。
- 3.It remained very difficult to procure food，fuel and other daily necessities.
- 食料、燃料、その他の日用必需品は依然として入手困難である。
- 4.Can you procure some specimens for me/ procure me some specimens？
- サンプルを手に入れてくれませんか。
- 5.What documents should he attempt to procure from Portland？
- 彼はポートランドからどんなファイルを買収すべきですか。