vagrant
英 ['veɪgr(ə)nt]
美 ['veɡrənt]
- 浮浪者; 流れ者; 放浪者
- n. 浮浪者; 放浪者; ごろつき; 放浪者
語源
浮浪者古フランス語のwalcrer（放浪者、放浪者）に由来すると考えられることが多いが、語源はwalkと同じで、綴りはラテン語のvagusの影響を受けている。
英語の語源
- vagrant (n.)
- mid-15c., "person who lacks regular employment, one without fixed abode, a tramp," probably from Anglo-French vageraunt, also wacrant, walcrant, which is said in many sources to be a noun use of the past participle of Old French walcrer "to wander," from Frankish (Germanic) *walken, from the same source as Old Norse valka "wander" and English walk (v.).
Under this theory the word was influenced by Old French vagant, vagaunt "wandering," from Latin vagantem (nominative vagans), past participle of vagari "to wander, stroll about" (see vagary). But on another theory the Anglo-French word ultimately is from Old French vagant, with an intrusive -r-. Middle English also had vagaunt "wandering, without fixed abode" (late 14c.), from Old French vagant. - vagrant (adj.)
- early 15c., from Anglo-French vagarant, waucrant, and sharing with it the history to be found under vagrant (n.). Dogberry's corruption vagrom ("Much Ado about Nothing") persisted through 19c. in learned jocularity.
例文
- 1. A vagrant is everywhere at home.
- 放浪者は四海を家とする。
＜dl>＜dt＞2.In the old society，owing to cruel exploitation and successive years of tangled warfare among warloads，the labouring people led a
vagrant life.
旧社会では、残酷な搾取と連年続く軍閥の混戦により、労働人民は絶え間ない生活を送っていた。- 3.He lived on the street as a vagrant .
- 彼は大通りで物乞いをして生計を立てている。
- 4.We met a band of vagrant beggars there.
- 私たちはそこで放浪している乞食たちに出会った。
- 5.The degree of contrast will also be diminished by the presence of some vagrant ordinary light.
- コントラストは、いくつかの不純物自然光の存在によっても低下する。
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