英単語

tempestの意味・使い方・発音

tempest

英 ['tempɪst] 美 ['tɛmpɪst]
  • n. 嵐;騒動;混乱
  • vt.激怒させる;騒がせる;動揺させる
  • vi.大騒ぎする;大嵐を起こす
  • n. (テンペスト)人の名前;(英)Tempest.

語源


tempest 嵐、テンペスト。

ラテン語のtempestas, storms, tempest, blizzardsから、tempus, time, seasonから、語源はtemporalと同じ。 語源は期間から特別な時間、悪天候、最後に荒天、すなわち代表的な天候の特徴に派生した。 言葉の進化の比較meteor,meteorology.

英語の語源


tempest
tempest: [13] Latin tempestās started off meaning nothing more alarming than ‘period of time’ (it was a derivative of tempus ‘time’, source of English temporary). Gradually, however, it progressed via ‘weather’ to ‘bad weather, storm’. Tempus moved in to take its place in the neutral sense ‘weather’, and provides the word for ‘weather’ in modern French (temps), Italian (tempo), Spanish (tiempo), and Romanian (timp). Other languages whose word for ‘weather’ comes from a term originally denoting ‘time’ include Russian (pogoda), Polish (czas), Czech (po?así), Latvian (laiks), and Breton (amzer).
=> temporary
tempest (n.)
"violent storm," late 13c., from Old French tempeste "storm; commotion, battle; epidemic, plague" (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *tempesta, from Latin tempestas "a storm; weather, season, time, point in time, season, period," also "commotion, disturbance," related to tempus "time, season" (see temporal).

Sense evolution is from "period of time" to "period of weather," to "bad weather" to "storm." Words for "weather" originally were words for "time" in languages from Russia to Brittany. Figurative sense of "violent commotion" in English is recorded from early 14c. Tempest in a teapot attested from 1818; the image in other forms is older, such as storm in a creambowl (1670s).

例文


1. I hadn 't foreseen the tempest my request would cause.
私の要求がこんなに大きな波紋を呼ぶとは思わなかった。

2.The takeover provoked a tempest of criticism.
今回の買収は潮のような批判を呼んだ。

3.The sailors took in sail when the tempest was approaching.
嵐が来たとき、水夫たちはテントを置いた。

4.He won a tempest of applause when he ended his speech.
演説が終わった時、彼は嵐のような拍手を浴びた。

5.No tempest is capable of shatering his firm determination.
どんな荒波も盤石の決意を揺るがすことはできない。

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