purchase

• n. 買う；しがみつく；吊り上げる
• vt. 買う；勝ち取る
• vi.何かを買う

Pur-、前へ、前に、追う、追求する。get、get on、hold on to、hold on toから派生し、後にpurchase、buyの意味で使われるようになり、主な語義となった。

purchase

purchase: [13] To purchase something is etymologically to ‘hunt it down’. It comes from Old French pourchacier ‘pursue’, hence ‘try to obtain’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix pour- and chacier ‘pursue’ (source of English chase). It arrived in English meaning ‘obtain’. This sense had virtually died out by the end of the 17th century, but not before it had evolved in the 14th century to ‘buy’.
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purchase (v.)

c. 1300, "acquire, obtain; get, receive; procure, provide," also "accomplish or bring about; instigate; cause, contrive, plot; recruit, hire," from Anglo-French purchaser "go after," Old French porchacier "search for, procure; purchase; aim at, strive for, pursue eagerly" (11c., Modern French pourchasser), from pur- "forth" (possibly used here as an intensive prefix; see pur-) + Old French chacier "run after, to hunt, chase" (see chase (v.)).

Originally to obtain or receive as due in any way, including through merit or suffering; specific sense of "acquire for money, pay money for, buy" is from mid-14c., though the word continued to be used for "to get by conquest in war, obtain as booty" up to 17c. Related: Purchased; purchasing.

purchase (n.)

c. 1300, purchas, "acquisition, gain;" also, "something acquired or received, a possession; property, goods;" especially "booty, spoil; goods gained by pillage or robbery" (to make purchase was "to seize by robbery"). Also "mercenary soldier, one who fights for booty." From Anglo-French purchace, Old French porchaz "acquisition, gain, profit; seizing, plunder; search pursuit, effort," from Anglo-French purchaser, Old French porchacier (see purchase (v.)).

From early 14c. as "endeavor, effort, exertion; instigation, contrivance;" late 14c. as "act of acquiring, procurement." Meaning "that which is bought" is from 1580s. The sense of "hold or position for advantageously applying power" (1711) is extended from the nautical verb meaning "to haul or draw (especially by mechanical power)," often used in reference to hauling up anchors, attested from 1560s. Wif of purchase (early 14c.) was a term for "concubine."

1. Purchase tax was not payable on goods for export.

輸出商品は購入税を払う必要はありません。

2.Investors can borrow an amount equal to the property 's purchase price.

投資家は不動産購入価格と同等の借入金を得ることができる。

3.When her deal is done，the client emerges with her purchase .

取引が完了すると、依頼人が現れて彼女が購入したものを渡します。

4.I couldn 't get any purchase with the screwdriver on the damn screws.

私はドライバでそのネジをねじっても少しも力が入らない。

5.Some of the receipts had been for the purchase of cars.

領収書の中には、自動車を購入するときに発行されたものがあります。