tantamount

• 等しい

ラテン語のtantus「同じ、一致する」から、tant amount「等しい、一致する」というフレーズ。

tantamount

tantamount: [17] Tantamount means etymologically ‘amounting to as much’. It comes from an earlier verb tantamount ‘amount to as much as, be equal to’, which was a lexicalization of the Anglo-Norman expression tant amunter ‘amount to as much’. This was made up of tant ‘as much’, which came via Old French from Latin tantus, and amunter, ancestor of English amount.
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tantamount (adj.)

1640s, from verbal phrase tant amount "be equivalent" (1620s), from Anglo-French tant amunter "amount to as much" (late 13c.), from Old French tant "as much" (11c., from Latin tantus, from tam "so;" see tandem) + amonter "amount to, go up" (see amount (v.)).

1. What Bracey is saying is tantamount to heresy.

ブレッシーの言葉はまさに異端邪説だ。

2.If he resigned it would be tantamount to admitting that he was guilty.

彼が辞任すれば、自分の過ちを認めることになる。

3.This invasion is tantamount to a declaration of war.

今回の侵略は宣戦布告に相当する。

4.Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.

彼女の告白は即席説明に等しい。

5.To neglect or forget aspects of the past is tantamount to rewriting history，and anyone who has read Animal Farm knows where that can lead.

過去を無視したり忘れたりするのは歴史を改竄するのと同じであり、『動物農場』を読んだ人なら誰でもそれがどんな結果になるか知っている。