scarp

• vt.内部に斜面を設ける；急斜面を作る
• n. 内斜面、急斜面

イタリア語のscarpa（急斜面、崖）から。原語ゲルマン語*skarpa（切る、鋭利な）の語源はPIE*sker（切る、スライスする）で、語源的には剪断、鋭利な。

scarp (n.)

"steep slope," 1580s, from Italian scarpa "slope," probably from a Germanic source, perhaps Gothic skarpo "pointed object," from Proto-Germanic *skarpa- "cutting, sharp" (cognates: Middle High German schroffe "sharp rock, crag," Old English scr?f "cave, grave"), from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)).

1. The scarp has slopes with grades greater than 60 degrees.

この崖の斜面角度は60度より大きい。

2.Sometimes you may not even know that you are looking at a fault scarp .

見ているのが断層だと知らないこともあります。