英単語

sevenの意味・使い方・発音

seven

英 ['sev(ə)n] 美 ['sɛvn]
  • num.
  • n. seven, seven
  • adj.7つの;7つの
  • n. (セブン)人の名前;(トゥルク、アッセ)シェヴィン;(トゥ)セヴィン

語源


セブン

古英語seofonから、原ゲルマン語*sebunから、PIE*septm, sevenから、語源はSeptember, septetと同じ。

英語の語源


seven
seven: [OE] The Indo-European term for ‘seven’ was *septm. This evolved into Latin septem (source of English September), Greek heptá (source of English heptathlon [20]), and Germanic *sebun. And *sebun in turn has diversified into German sieben, Dutch zeven, Swedish sju, Danish syv, and English seven.
=> heptathlon, september
seven (n.)
Old English seofon, from Proto-Germanic *sebun (cognates: Old Saxon sibun, Old Norse sjau, Swedish sju, Danish syv, Old Frisian sowen, siugun, Middle Dutch seven, Dutch zeven, Old High German sibun, German sieben, Gothic sibun), from PIE *septm "seven" (cognates: Sanskrit sapta, Avestan hapta, Hittite shipta, Greek hepta, Latin septem, Old Church Slavonic sedmi, Lithuanian septyni, Old Irish secht, Welsh saith).

Long regarded as a number of perfection (seven wonders; seven sleepers, the latter translating Latin septem dormientes; seven against Thebes, etc.), but that notion is late in Old English and in German a nasty, troublesome woman could be eine b?se Sieben "an evil seven" (1662).

Magical power or healing skill associated since 16c. with the seventh son ["The seuenth Male Chyld by iust order (neuer a Gyrle or Wench being borne betweene)," Thomas Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," 1579]. The typical number for "very great, strong," as in seven-league boots in the fairy story of Hop o'my Thumb. The Seven Years' War (1756-63) is also the Third Silesian War.

The Seven Stars (Old English sibunsterri), usually refers to the Pleiades, though in 15c. and after this name occasionally was given to the Big Dipper (which also has seven stars), or the seven planets of classical astronomy. Popular as a tavern sign, it might also (with six in a circle, one in the center) be a Masonic symbol.
FOOL: ... The reason why the
seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.
LEAR: Because they are not eight?
FOOL: Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.
["King Lear," I.v.]

例文


1. Originally released in 1957、the film was remade as "The Magnificent Seven ".
この映画は最初に1957年に公開され、後に『七人の男』にリメイクされた。

2.The seven major industrial countries will have their yearly meeting in London.
7つの主要工業国がロンドンで年に1度の会議を開催する。

3.These chaps know their stuff after seven years of war.
7年の戦争後、彼らはすべて作戦通になった。

4.By my reckoning were seven or eight kilometres from Borj Mechab.
メルカバルからは7、8キロ離れていると思います。

5.He was about seven years old,small and fine-boned like his mother.
彼は7歳くらいで、骨格は母親のように小柄で均一だ。

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