temerity

• n. 無謀、軽率、勇敢

ラテン語のtemere「盲目な、衝動的な、無謀な」から、PIE*teme「暗い」に由来し、語源的にはtenebrous「暗い」と同じ。

temerity

temerity: [15] Someone who behaves with temerity is etymologically acting in the ‘dark’. The word was adapted from Latin temeritās ‘rashness’, a derivative of temere ‘blindly’, hence ‘rashly’. This in turn was formed from an unrecorded *temus ‘darkness’, a relative of tenebrae ‘darkness’, and hence originally denoted ‘acting in the dark, so that one cannot see’.

temerity (n.)

late 14c., from Latin temeritatem (nominative temeritas) "blind chance, accident; rashness, indiscretion, foolhardiness," from temere "by chance, at random; indiscreetly, rashly," related to tenebrae "darkness," from PIE root *teme- "dark" (cognates: Sanskrit tamas- "darkness," tamsrah "dark;" Avestan temah "darkness;" Lithuanian tamsa "darkness," tamsus "dark;" Old Church Slavonic tima "darkness;" Old High German dinstar "dark;" Old Irish temel "darkness"). The connecting notion is "blindly, without foreseeing."

1. He had the temerity to call me a liar！

彼は私が嘘をつくと言うなんて！

2.He had the temerity to call me a liar.

彼は私が嘘をついていると大胆に言った。

3.He had the temerity to ask for higher wages after only a day 's work.

1日しか働いていないのに、彼は理不尽にも給料の増加を要求した。

4.He has even had the temerity to invoke the names of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X in defence of his actions.

彼はマーティン?ルーサー?キングとマルコム?エックスの名前を持ち出して自分の行為を弁解する勇気があった。

5.Tins took some temerity ，but it was fruitless.

このことは少し無鉄砲にやったが、結局は役に立たなかった。