squadron

• n. 航空中隊；集団；騎兵中隊；分遣隊；小艦隊
• vt.飛行隊を編成する。
• n. （中隊）人の名前；（英）Squadron

イタリア語のsquadrone「旅団」、squadra「大隊」、squadron「大隊」、square「正方形」、-one「大きな接尾辞」と語源は同じ。

squadron

squadron: [16] A squadron is etymologically a ‘square’. The current sense ‘military group’ comes from an earlier ‘square formation of troops’. The word was borrowed from Italian squadrone, a derivative of squadra ‘square’, which comes from the same source as English square. The related squad [17] comes from French escouade, an alteration of escadre, which was acquired from Italian squadra.
=> quarter, square

squadron (n.)

1560s, from Italian squadrone, augmentative of squadra "battalion," literally "square" (see squad). As a division of a fleet, from 1580s, of an air force, 1912.

1. They saw a squadron of fifteen motorcycle policemen driving in V-formation.

彼らは15人の警察官がバイクに乗ってV字形に並んで歩いているのを見た。

2.He was posted to Hong Kong as second-in-command of C Squadron .

彼は香港にC中隊の副隊長として派遣された。

3.In 1942 he took command of 108 Squadron .

1942年、108飛行中隊の指揮官だった。

4.Both of the dead men were identified as from No 15 squadron .

2人の死者はいずれも15中隊のものと認識されている。

5.In the first ten days of May our squadron accounted for at least seven enemy aircraft.

5月の最初の10日間、私たちの中隊は少なくとも7機の敵機を清算した。