reprieve

• vt. 実行を一時停止する；一時的に緩和する
• n. 執行を一時停止する；猶予する

from 中フランス語 repris, reprendre 過去分詞形, from reprendre, to catch back, from Latin reprehendere, to catch back, from re-, backward, backward, prerehendere, to catch, 語源は刑務所と同じ、非難される。本来の意味は、刑務所に連れ戻す、送り返す、後に死刑を猶予する。スペルは-eveの影響かもしれない。

reprieve

reprieve: [16] Reprieve originally meant ‘send back to prison’ (‘Of this treason he was found guilty, and reprieved in the Tower a long time’, Edmund Campion, History of Ireland 1571), but since this was often the alternative to execution, the word soon came to mean ‘suspend a death sentence’. The form in which it originally occurs, at the end of the 15th century, is repry, and it is not clear where the v came from. Repry was borrowed from repris, the past participle of Old French reprendre ‘take back’.

This in turn went back to Latin reprehendere (source of English reprehensible [14]), a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and prehendere ‘seize, take’ (source of English prison, prize, surprise, etc). The medieval Latin derivative reprehensālia produced English reprisal [15], and the feminine past participle of Old French reprendre was the source of English reprise [14].
=> apprehend, prison, prize, reprisal, reprise, surprise

reprieve (v.)

1570s, reprive, "take back to prison," alteration (perhaps by influence of reprove) of Middle English repryen "to remand, detain" (late 15c.), probably from Middle French repris, past participle of reprendre "take back" (see reprise). Meaning "to suspend an impending execution" is recorded from 1590s; this sense evolved because being sent back to prison was the alternative to being executed. Spelling with -ie- is from 1640s, perhaps by analogy of achieve, etc. Related: Reprieved; reprieving.

reprieve (n.)

1590s, from reprieve (v.).

1. He was saved from the gallows by a lastminute reprieve .

最後の執行猶予令で絞首刑から解放された。

2.The railway line，due for closure，has been granted a six-month reprieve .

運休すべき鉄道線は6ヶ月間多く運行することが許可されている。

3.The family have won a temporary reprieve from eviction.

この家庭は一時的に追放されることを免れた。

4.A man awaiting death by lethal injection has been saved by a last minute reprieve .

死刑執行直前の男が最後の1分間に執行猶予を受けた。

5.It looked as though the college would have to shut，but this week it was given a reprieve .

この大学は閉鎖されるように見えますが、今週は一時的に状況が緩和されました。