stamina

• n. 根気、エネルギー、活力、持続力。

ラテン語の stamen の複数形 stamen から、紡ぐ糸、縦糸、運命の糸、人生の糸。スタミナ、持久力から比喩的に派生。

stamina

stamina: [17] Etymologically, stamina is the plural of stamen ‘male reproductive part of a flower’ [17]. The ultimate source of both is Latin stāmen ‘thread of woven cloth’, which went back to Indo-European *stāmen-, a derivative of the base *stā- ‘stand’ (source also of English stand). The application to the plant-part appears to go back to the Roman naturalist Pliny, who used stāmen for the stamens of a sort of lily, which resembled threads of cloth. The Latin plural stāmina was borrowed into English in the metaphorical sense ‘threads of human life, vital capacities’, and by the 18th century it had broadened out to ‘vigour’.
=> stamen, stand

stamina (n.)

1670s, "rudiments or original elements of something," from Latin stamina "threads," plural of stamen (genitive staminis) "thread, warp" (see stamen). Sense of "power to resist or recover, strength, endurance" first recorded 1726 (originally plural), from earlier meaning "congenital vital capacities of a person or animal;" also in part from use of the Latin word in reference to the threads spun by the Fates (such as queri nimio de stamine "too long a thread of life"), and partly from a figurative use of Latin stamen "the warp (of cloth)" on the notion of the warp as the "foundation" of a fabric. Related: Staminal.

1. It takes a lot of stamina to run a marathon.

マラソンには大きな持久力が必要です。

2.I lacked the stamina to run the whole length of the race.

完走する気力がありません.

3.Giving up smoking had a magical effect on his stamina .

禁煙は不思議にも彼の体力を高めた。

4.It 's remarkable that a 70-year-old man has the stamina he had！

70歳の人が彼のような精力を持っているのは普通ではない。

5.Aerobic exercise helps to build up stamina .

エアロビクスは持久力を高めるのに役立ちます。