英単語

umbrellaの意味・使い方・発音

umbrella

英 [ʌm'brelə] 美 [ʌm'brɛlə]
  • n. 傘; 保護の傘; シェルター; 傘の構造

語源


語源はラテン語のumbra(陰、影)で、adumbrate、umbrage、-ellaと同じ。日傘や傘を指す。

英語の語源


umbrella
umbrella: [17] Etymologically, an umbrella is a ‘little shadow’. The word was borrowed from Italian ombrella, a diminutive form of ombra ‘shade, shadow’. This in turn went back to Latin umbra, source of English sombre, umbrage, etc. It originally denoted a ‘sunshade’, and that meaning followed it into English, but it was not long before the vagaries of the British climate saw it being applied to a ‘protector against rain’.
=> umbrage
umbrella (n.)
"hand-held portable canopy which opens and folds," c. 1600, first attested in Donne's letters, from Italian ombrello, from Late Latin umbrella, altered (by influence of umbra) from Latin umbella "sunshade, parasol," diminutive of umbra "shade, shadow" (see umbrage).

A sunshade in the Mediterranean, a shelter from the rain in England; in late 17c. usage, usually as an Oriental or African symbol of dignity. Said to have been used by women in England from c. 1700; the use of rain-umbrellas carried by men there traditionally is dated to c. 1750, first by Jonas Hathaway, noted traveler and philanthropist. Figurative sense of "authority, unifying quality" (usually in a phrase such as under the umbrella of) is recorded from 1948.

例文


1. The man with the umbrella turned the corner again.
傘を持っていた人がまた角に曲がった。

2.She opens her umbrella ,and walks up River Street.
彼女は傘を広げて、川の街に沿って歩いた。

3.Does coincidence come under the umbrella of the paranormal?
偶然は超自然現象なのか。

4.Within the umbrella term "dementia "there are many different kinds of disease.
「痴呆」という総称には、さまざまな病気が含まれています。

5.It was raining hard,and she hadn 't an umbrella .
雨が激しく降っていますが、彼女は傘を持っていません。

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