sedentary
英 ['sed(ə)nt(ə)rɪ]
美 ['sɛdntɛri]
語源
sedentary.ラテン語のsedens「座る」、sedere「座る」の現在分詞、sit「座る」と語源は同じ。語源はsedentary, sedentaryなど。
英語の語源
- sedentary
- sedentary: see session
- sedentary (adj.)
- 1590s, "remaining in one place," from Middle French sédentaire (16c.) and directly from Latin sedentarius "sitting, remaining in one place," from sedentem (nominative sedens), present participle of sedere "to sit; occupy an official seat, preside; sit still, remain; be fixed or settled," from PIE root *sed- (1) "to sit" (cognates: Sanskrit a-sadat "sat down," sidati "sits;" Old Persian hadis "abode;" Greek ezesthai "to sit," hedra "seat, chair, face of a geometric solid;" Old Irish suide "seat, sitting;" Welsh sedd "seat," eistedd "sitting;" Old Church Slavonic se?da, sedeti "to sit;" Lithuanian sedmi "to sit;" Russian sad "garden," Lithuanian soditi "to plant;" Gothic sitan, Old English sittan "to sit;" see sit). Of persons, the sense "not in the habit of exercise" is recorded from 1660s.
例文
- 1. I don 't think a sedentary life would altogether suit me.
- 長期的なデスクワークの生活は私には少しも向いていないと思います。
- 2.People in sedentary jobs need to take exercise.
- 仕事で長居する人は運動をする必要があります。
- 3.Bookkeeping is a sedentary occupation.
- 会計は座って仕事をする必要がある職業です。
- 4.Pigeons are sedentary birds.
- 鳩は定住する鳥である。
- 5. Sedentary habits often interfere with health.
- 長く座っても動かない習慣は体の健康に有害であることが多い。
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