英単語

strangeの意味・使い方・発音

strange

英 [streɪn(d)ʒ] 美 [strendʒ]
  • adj.奇妙な; 不慣れな; 素人っぽい
  • adv.奇妙に; 妙に; 冷淡に
  • n.(奇妙な)人名;(英)Strange;(英?仏)Stranger

語源


奇妙な外国人, 奇妙な, 奇妙な

古フランス語のestrange「異質な、外部の」から、ラテン語のextraneus「外国の、外部の」から、語源的にはextra-「外部の」と同じ。

英語の語源


strange
strange: [13] The etymological notion underlying strange is of being ‘beyond the usual bounds or boundaries’. This evolved into ‘foreign’ (which survives in the closely related French étrange) and ‘odd’. The word came via Old French estrange from Latin extrāneus ‘foreign, strange’ (source of English extraneous [17]), an adjective based on extrā ‘outward, outside’. Stranger [14] goes back to *extrāneārius, a Vulgar Latin derivative of extrāneus; and another derivative, extrāneāre ‘alienate’, produced English estrange [15].
=> estrange, extraneous
strange (adj.)
late 13c., "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown, unfamiliar," from Old French estrange "foreign, alien, unusual, unfamiliar, curious; distant; inhospitable; estranged, separated" (Modern French étrange), from Latin extraneus "foreign, external, from without" (source also of Italian strano "strange, foreign," Spanish estra?o), from extra "outside of" (see extra). In early use also strounge, straunge. Sense of "queer, surprising" is attested from late 14c. In nuclear physics, from 1956.

例文


1. There was something strange in her attitude which mystified me.
彼女の態度は少し変わっていて、私を困惑させた。

2.I also had a strange feeling in my neck.
首の感覚もおかしい。

3.It was strange ,how invisible a clerk could feel.
このように無視されていると感じる事務員がいるのは不思議だ。

4.Her husband 's body lies buried 2000 miles away in a strange land.
夫の遺体は2千マイル離れた見知らぬ国に埋葬されている。

5.I feel lost and lonely in a strange townalone.
見知らぬ町で一人でいることに戸惑い、寂しくなった。

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