speech

• n.スピーチ; スピーチ; [言語]演説; オラシオン

speak の名詞形を構成し、関連語から意味を派生させる。

speech

speech: [OE] Speech originated as a derivative of the late Old English verb specan, ancestor of modern English speak. It was originally used for the ‘action of speaking’ in general, or for ‘conversation’; the modern application to an ‘address delivered to an audience’ did not emerge until the 16th century.
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speech (n.)

Old English sp?c "act of speaking; power of speaking; manner of speaking; statement, discourse, narrative, formal utterance; language," variant of spr?c, from Proto-Germanic *sprek-, *spek- (cognates: Danish sprog, Old Saxon spraca, Old Frisian spreke, Dutch spraak, Old High German sprahha, German Sprache "speech;" see speak (v.))

The spr- forms were extinct in English by 1200. Meaning "address delivered to an audience" first recorded 1580s.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak,
Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store,
Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.

[James Russell Lowell, "A Fable for Critics," 1848]

1. In an emotionally charged speech ，he said he was resigning.

扇情的な演説の中で、彼は辞職すると言った。

2.He is not attempting necessarily to reproduce the cadence of speech .

彼は意図的にそのような口調を繰り返したくなかった。

3.He went even further in his speech to the conference.

彼は大会の発言でさらに詳しく述べた。

4.Reagan 's speech was met with incredulity in the US.

レーガン氏の講演が米国で疑問視されている。

5.I heard him make a very eloquent speech at that dinner.

その晩餐会で、私は彼が非常に説得力のある陳述をしたのを聞いた。