toxic

• adj.毒性がある；毒を盛られた

Tox-、毒、毒性、-ic、形容詞接尾辞。

toxic

toxic: [17] The etymological meaning underlying toxic is of ‘poisoned arrows’. Its ultimate source is Greek tóxon ‘bow’, which also gave English toxophily ‘archery’ [19]. From it was derived toxikós ‘of bows and arrows’, which formed the basis of a noun toxikón ‘poison for putting on arrows’. Latin took this over as toxicum ‘poison’, and the medieval Latin derivative toxicus gave English toxic.
=> toxophily

toxic (adj.)

1660s, from French toxique and directly from Late Latin toxicus "poisoned," from Latin toxicum "poison," from Greek toxikon (pharmakon) "(poison) for use on arrows," from toxikon, neuter of toxikos "pertaining to arrows or archery," and thus to a bow, from toxon "bow," probably from a Scythian word that also was borrowed into Latin as taxus "yew." Watkins suggests a possible source in Iranian tax?a- "bow," from PIE *tekw- "to run, flee." As a noun from 1890.

1. Nuclear weapons plants across the country are heavily contaminated with toxic wastes.全国の核兵器工場が有毒廃棄物によって深刻な汚染を受けている。

2.Lead can accumulate in the body until toxic levels are reached.

鉛は鉛中毒になるまで体内に蓄積されます。

3. Toxic waste could endanger lives and poison fish.

有毒廃棄物は生命を危険にさらし、魚類を毒殺する可能性がある。

4.Toxicologists attempt to identify and understand toxic hazards.

毒理学者は毒のリスクを探し出し、理解しようとした。

5.Too much toxic waste is being dumped at sea.

有毒廃棄物が海に投棄されていることが多い。