中英語のscren, windscreen, hearth screen, fireplace barから、原語ゲルマン語*skirmiz, to block off, screen, protectから、PIE*sker, to cut, slice, separateから、語源的にはshear, shareと同じ。
英語の語源
screen
screen: [15] Screen goes back ultimately to a Frankish *skrank ‘barrier’, a distant ancestor of German schrank ‘cupboard’. This was taken over into Old Northern French as escran, and it was a variant form of this, escren, that became English screen.
screen (n.)
mid-14c., "upright piece of furniture providing protection from heat of a fire, drafts, etc.," probably from a shortened (Anglo-French? compare Anglo-Latin screna) variant of Old North French escren, Old French escran "fire-screen" (early 14c.), perhaps from Middle Dutch scherm "screen, cover, shield," or Frankish *skrank "barrier," from Proto-Germanic *skerm- (cognates: Old High German skirm, skerm "protection," from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)).
Meaning "net-wire frame used in windows and doors" is recorded from 1859. Meaning "flat vertical surface for reception of projected images" is from 1810, originally in reference to magic lantern shows; later of movies. Transferred sense of "cinema world collectively" is attested from 1914; hence screen test (1918), etc. Screen saver first attested 1990. Screen printing recorded from 1918.
screen (v.)
"to shield from punishment, to conceal," late 15c., from screen (n.). Meaning "examine systematically for suitability" is from 1943; sense of "to release a movie" is from 1915. Related: Screened; screening.
例文
1. For added protection choose a lipstick with a sun screen .
日焼け止めリップクリームを選択して保護を強化します。
2.A list of items is repeatedly flashed up on the screen .
オプションリストが繰り返し画面に表示されます。
3.McKay walked slowly toward this screen ，feeling a growing tenseness.
マッケイはゆっくりとこの画面に向かって歩いてきて、歩くたびに気持ちがさらに緊張します。
4.Producers decided to end hern- screen romance with Pierce Lawton.
プロデューサーは、映画の中でピアース?ロートンとの恋を終わらせることにした。
5.Off- screen ，Kathy is under the watchful eye of her father Terry.