英単語

pupilの意味・使い方・発音

pupil

英 ['pjuːpɪl; -p(ə)l] 美 [ˈpjuːpl]
  • n. pupil; [解剖学的]瞳孔; 小瞳孔

語源


瞳孔 小学生

ラテン語の pupillus(小さな少年)、pupus(少年)の短縮形から、おそらくPIE*pup(膨らむ、膨らむ)、擬音語、grow(成長する)の語源、またはPIE*pau(小さい、小さい)、語源はfew(教育学者)と同じ。

瞳孔

ラテン語のpupilla、小さな女の子、pupillusの女性形から。瞳孔に映る姿が少女のように見えることからそう呼ばれる。

英語の語源


pupil
pupil: [14] Latin pūpus and pūpa meant respectively ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ (pūpa was applied by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus to ‘chrysalises’, the underlying link being ‘undeveloped creature’, and English adopted it as pupa [19]). The diminutive derivatives pūpillus and pūpilla denoted ‘orphan’, a sense which remained with pūpill- as it passed via Old French pupille into English as pupil. ‘Person being taught’ did not emerge until the 16th century.

The application of the word to the ‘black aperture in the eye’, which reached English in the mid-16th century, goes back to Latin pūpilla, which was also used for ‘doll’ – the notion being that if you stand close to someone and look into their eyes, you can see yourself reflected in the pupils like a little ‘doll’.

=> pupa, puppet, puppy
pupil (n.1)
"student," late 14c., originally "orphan child, ward," from Old French pupille (14c.) and directly from Latin pupillus (fem. pupilla) "orphan child, ward, minor," diminutive of pupus "boy" (fem. pupa "girl"), probably related to puer "child," possibly from PIE *pup-, from root *pu- "to swell, inflate." Meaning "disciple, student" first recorded 1560s. Related: Pupillary.
pupil (n.2)
"center of the eye," early 15c. (in English in Latin form from late 14c.), from Old French pupille (14c.), from Latin pupilla, originally "little girl-doll," diminutive of pupa "girl; doll" (see pupil (n.1)), so called from the tiny image one sees of himself reflected in the eye of another. Greek used the same word, kore (literally "girl"), to mean both "doll" and "pupil of the eye;" and compare obsolete baby "small image of oneself in another's pupil" (1590s), source of 17c. colloquial expression to look babies "stare lovingly into another's eyes."
Self-knowledge can be obtained only by looking into the mind and virtue of the soul, which is the diviner part of a man, as we see our own image in another's eye. [Plato, "Alcibiades," I.133]

例文


1. After his education,Goldschmidt became a pupil of the composer Franz Schreker.
学業が終わった後、ゴールドシュミットは作曲家フランツ?シュレッケルの学生になった。

2.This can cause regression in a pupil 's learning process.
これにより、学習中に学生が退歩する可能性があります。

3.As a girl she had been a model pupil .
まだ幼い女の子の頃は、模範的な学生だった。

4.Eleanor was a reluctant,anxious pupil .
エレノアはひねくれた小学生だ。

a capitation fee for each pupil

5.a capitation fee for each pupil