sewer
英 ['suːə; 'sjuːə]
美 ['suɚ]
- n. 下水道; 側溝; 洋服屋
- vt. ...のために下水道を敷設する;下水道によって...汚水を除去する
- vi. 下水を掃除する
語源
下水溝古ノルド語の sewiere、水門、出口、ガロ?ローマ語の *exaquaria、出口、ラテン語の ex-、外、外、aqua、水、語源的には aquarium、水槽のチューブと同じ。後の語彙の専門化は、下水道、側溝を指す。
英語の語源
- sewer
- sewer: [15] Etymologically, sewer denotes the ‘removal of water’. The word comes via Anglo- Norman sever from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria, a derivative of *exaquāre ‘remove water, drain’. This was a compound verb formed from Latin ex- ‘out’ and aqua ‘water’. The derivatives sewage [19] and sewerage [19] are both native English formations.
=> aquatic - sewer (n.1)
- c. 1400, "conduit," from Anglo-French sewere, Old North French sewiere "sluice from a pond" (13c.), literally "something that makes water flow," from shortened form of Gallo-Roman *exaquaria (source of Middle French esseveur), from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + aquaria, fem. of aquarius "pertaining to water," from aqua "water" (see aqua-).
Specifically of underground channels for wastewater from c. 1600; figurative use of this is from 1640s. - sewer (n.2)
- "one who sews," late 14c., agent noun from sew (v.).
例文
- 1. The pond stank like a sewer .
- 池は陰溝のように悪臭を放っている。
- 2.The stench from the sewer is indescribable.
- 下水道からは何とも言えない悪臭がする。
- 3.They are tearing up the street to repair a sewer .
- 彼らは道路を掘って下水道を修理している。
- 4.Noxious gases had built up in the sewer .
- 下水道の有害ガスは蓄積するほど多くなる.
- 5.The sewer lines may then become clogged with inert materials.
- 排水管路はこのような不活性物質によって塞がれている可能性がある。
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