vehicle: [17] A vehicle is etymologically something that ‘carries’. The word comes via French véhicule from Latin vehiculum, a derivative of vehere ‘carry’. This also gave English convex, inveigh, vector [18] (etymologically a ‘carrier’), and vex [15], and it came ultimately from a prehistoric Indo- European base *wegh-, ancestor also of English waggon, way, weigh, etc. => convex, inveigh, vector, vex, waggon, way, weigh
vehicle (n.)
1610s, "a medium through which a drug or medicine is administered," also "any means of conveying or transmitting," from French véhicule (16c.), from Latin vehiculum "means of transport, vehicle, carriage, conveyance," from vehere "to bear, carry, convey," from PIE *wegh- "to go, transport in a vehicle" (cognates: Old English wegan "to carry;" Old Norse vegr, Old High German weg "way;" Middle Dutch wagen "wagon;" see wagon). Sense of "cart or other conveyance" in English first recorded 1650s.
例文
1. The vehicle that permitted both communication and acceptability was social revolution.
コミュニケーションを実現し、広く受け入れられる手段が社会革命である。
2.The President 's unescorted vehicle was ambushed just outside the capital.
首都を出たとたん、大統領が護衛していない車が待ち伏せ攻撃を受けた。
3.The driver managed to escape from the vehicle and shout a warning.
その運転手は何とかして車から脱出し、大声で警告した。
4.A few minutes later the bomb went off,destroying the vehicle .
爆弾は数分後に爆発し、その車を爆破した。
5.She did none of the maintenance on the vehicle itself.