ラテン語のsceleton, bone, skeletonから、ギリシャ語のskeleton soma, skeletonから、文字通り乾いた体、skeletos, dryから、skellein, to dry out, to hardenから、語源的にはsclerosis, shallow, soma, bodyと同じ、語源的にはsomatic, chromosomeと同じ。染色体。あらすじ、概要などから比喩的に派生した。
英語の語源
skeleton
skeleton: [16] A skeleton is etymologically a ‘dried-up’ or ‘withered’ body. The word comes via modern Latin from Greek skeletón, short for sóma skeletón ‘dried-up body’. The adjective skeletós was derived from skéllein ‘dry up, wither’, and was related to sklērós ‘dry, hard’, from which English gets sclerosis [14]. => sclerosis
skeleton (n.)
1570s, from Modern Latin sceleton "bones, bony framework of the body," from Greek skeleton soma "dried-up body, mummy, skeleton," from neuter of skeletos "dried-up" (also, as a noun, "dried body, mummy"), from skellein "dry up, make dry, parch," from PIE root *skele- "to parch, wither" (see sclero-).
Skelton was an early variant form. The noun use of Greek skeletos passed into Late Latin (sceletus), hence French squelette and rare English skelet (1560s), Spanish esqueleto, Italian scheletro. The meaning "bare outline" is first recorded c. 1600; hence skeleton crew (1778), skeleton key, etc. Phrase skeleton in the closet "source of secret shame to a person or family" is from 1812.
例文
1. A skeleton staff of 20 is being kepton.
は中堅20人を残した。
2.The skeleton consists of differently shaped bones held together by ligaments.
人体骨格は靭帯でつながった形状の異なる骨で構成されている。
3.Only a skeleton staff remains to show anyone interested around the site.
必要なスタッフのほんの一部だけがそこに残っていて、興味のある人は遺跡を見学します。
4.The human skeleton consists of 206 bones.
人間の骨は206個の骨からなる。
5.The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.