see

• vt. 見る；理解する；理解する
• vi. 見る；理解する
• n. （見る）人の名前；（英）Sey；（カンボジア）Sey；（独）Zee

古英語のseon「見る、見つめる、気づく」から、原語ゲルマン語*sehwana「見る、気づく」から、おそらくPIE*sekw「従う、従う」に由来し、語源的にはsequence「2番目」と同じ。

聖座、司教座、司教司牧座、司教座のフランス語の変化形である聖座から略された。

see

see: English has two words see. The older is the verb, ‘perceive visually’ [OE]. Like its Germanic cousins, German sehen, Dutch zien, and Swedish and Danish se, it goes back to a prehistoric *sekhwan, which was descended from an Indo-European base *seq-. This may have been the same *seq- that produced Latin sequī ‘follow’ (source of English sequence, sue, etc), in which case see would denote etymologically ‘follow with the eyes’. See ‘diocese’ [13] originally signified ‘bishop’s throne’.

It came via Anglo-Norman se from Vulgar Latin *sedem ‘seat’, descendant of classical Latin sēdem, the accusative case of sēdes ‘seat’. This in turn went back to the Indo- European base *sed- ‘sit’, which also produced English sit.
=> sight; seat, sit

see (v.)

Old English seon "to see, look, behold; observe, perceive, understand; experience, visit, inspect" (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, past participle sewen), from Proto-Germanic *sekhwan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German sehan, Middle High German, German sehen, Old Frisian sia, Middle Dutch sien, Old Norse sja, Gothic saihwan), from PIE root *sekw- (2) "to see," which is probably identical with *sekw- (1) "to follow" (see sequel), a root which produced words for "say" in Greek and Latin, and also words for "follow" (such as Latin sequor), but "opinions differ in regard to the semantic starting-point and sequences" [Buck]. Thus see might originally mean "follow with the eyes."

Used in Middle English to mean "behold in the imagination or in a dream" (c. 1200), "to recognize the force of (a demonstration)," also c. 1200. Sense of "escort" (as in to see (someone) home) first recorded 1607 in Shakespeare. Meaning "to receive as a visitor" is attested from c. 1500. Gambling sense of "equal a bet" is from 1590s. See you as a casual farewell first attested 1891. Let me see as a pausing statement is recorded from 1510s. To have seen everything as a hyperbolic expression of astonishment is from 1957.

When you have seen one of their Pictures, you have seen all. [Blake, c. 1811]

see (n.)

c. 1300, "throne of a bishop, archbishop, or pope," also "throne of a monarch, a goddess, Antichrist, etc.," from Old French sie "seat, throne; town, capital; episcopal see," from Latin sedem (nominative sedes) "seat, throne, abode, temple," related to sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). Early 14c. as "administrative center of a bishopric;" c. 1400 as "province under the jurisdiction of a bishop."

1. Specialists see various reasons for the recent surge in infration.

専門家らは、現在インフレが激化しているのには様々な原因があると考えている。

2.I don 't see the point in it really.It 's just stupid.

私は本当にこれが何の意味があるのか理解できなくて、まったく愚かです。

3.He 'd phoned Laura to see if she was better.

ローラに電話して、彼女がよくなったかどうかを見てみた。

4.The criticisms will not stop people flocking to see the film.

批判の声は、映画館に押し寄せて映画を見ることを阻止しない。

5.He could just about see the little man behind the counter.

彼はカウンターの後ろにいる小柄な男をかろうじて見ることができた。