rot: [OE] Rot goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *rutjan, which also produced Dutch rotten. It may be related ultimately to Latin rudis ‘rough’, source of English rude. The adjective rotten [13] was borrowed from Old Norse rotinn, which came from the same Germanic stem as produced *rutjan. The mild imprecation drat [19] is a conflation of God and rot. => rude
rot (v.)
Old English rotian "to decay, putrefy," from Proto-Germanic *rutjan (cognates: Old Saxon roton, Old Norse rotna, Old Frisian rotia, Middle Dutch roten, Dutch rotten, Old High German rozzen "to rot," German r??en "to steep flax"), from stem *rut-. Related: Rotted; rotting.
rot (n.)
early 14c., from rot (v.) or of Scandinavian origin (compare Icelandic rot, Swedish r?ta, Danish r?de "decay, putrefaction"), from the root of the verb. Slang noun sense of "rubbish, trash" is from 1848.
例文
1. It took internal whistle-blowing and investigative journalism to uncover the rot .
は内部告発と調査的報道がこの腐敗事実を暴露した。
2.Condensation will eventually cause the fabric of the building to rot away.
凝縮作用は最終的に建築構造を朽ちさせる。
3.The trees were in bad shape from dry rot .
樹木が乾燥腐敗病になり、状況が心配されている。
4.Prod the windowsills to check for signs of rot .