treason

• n. [仏]反逆、不忠誠。

古フランス語のtraison「裏切る」、ラテン語のtraditionem「引き渡す」「降伏する」、ラテン語のtradere「譲渡する」「引き渡す」が語源で、語源的にはtradition「裏切る」と同じ。

treason

treason: [13] Treason and tradition are doublets – they have a common source. This was Latin trāditiō, a derivative of trādere ‘hand over, deliver’ (source also of English traitor). The notion of ‘handing something on to someone else’ lies behind tradition, but treason (acquired via Anglo-Norman treisoun) gets its meaning from the metaphorically extended Latin sense ‘hand over treacherously, betray’.
=> betray, tradition, traitor

treason (n.)

c. 1200, "betraying; betrayal of trust; breech of faith," from Anglo-French treson, from Old French traison "treason, treachery" (11c.; Modern French trahison), from Latin traditionem (nominative traditio) "a handing over, delivery, surrender" (see tradition). Old French form influenced by the verb trair "betray." In old English law, high treason is violation by a subject of his allegiance to his sovereign or to the state; distinguished from petit treason, treason against a subject, such as murder of a master by his servant. Constructive treason was a judicial fiction whereby actions carried out without treasonable intent, but found to have the effect of treason, were punished as though they were treason itself. The protection against this accounts for the careful wording of the definition of treason in the U.S. Constitution.

1. Treason in this country is still punishable by death.

この国では、反逆国は依然として死罪に値する。

2.They were shot yesterday after being convicted of mutiny and high treason .

反乱罪と反逆国罪の判決を受けた後、彼らは昨日銃殺された。

3.He was executed for treason .

彼は反逆罪で処刑された。

4.The public prosecutor charged treason against the prisoner.

検察官は犯罪者が国に反逆したと告発した。

5.They charged treason against him.

彼らは彼が反逆罪を犯したと告訴した。