verge

• vi. ギリギリのところで、近づいている。
• n. verge
• n. （バージ）人の名前；（英）ファッジ；（仏）ベルチ

ラテン語のvirga（小さな棒、緑の枝）から。また、教会長に使われる笏、ひいては管轄権、管轄権の端。

verge

verge: English has two words verge. The noun [14], which now means ‘edge’, was originally used in English for ‘penis’ (it is to this day a technical term for the male reproductive organ of invertebrate animals). It comes via Old French verge from Latin virga ‘rod’ (source also of English virgule [19]), and the sense ‘edge’ emerged in the 15th century from the notion of the limits of territorial jurisdiction of the Lord High Steward, as symbolized by his ‘rod’ of office.

A verger is likewise etymologically someone who carries an official ‘rod’. The verb verge [17] comes from Latin vergere ‘bend, incline’, which also gave English converge [17] and diverge [17].
=> verger, virgule; converge, diverge

verge (n.)

"edge, rim," mid-15c., from Old French verge "twig, branch; measuring rod; penis; rod or wand of office" (12c.), hence, from the last sense, "scope, territory dominated" (as in estre suz la verge de "be under the authority of"), from Latin virga "shoot, rod, stick, slender green branch," of unknown origin.

Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c. 1400). Modern sense is from the notion of within the verge (c. 1500, also as Anglo-French dedeinz la verge), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the king's court. Sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area." Meaning "point at which something happens" (as in on the verge of) is first attested c. 1600. "A very curious sense development." [Weekley]

verge (v.1)

"tend, incline," c. 1600, from Latin vergere "to bend, turn, tend toward, incline," from PIE *werg- "to turn," from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). Influenced by verge (v.2) "provide with a border" (c. 1600); "be adjacent to" (1787), from verge (n.). Related: Verged; verging.

1. I 'm sad that Julie 'smarriage is on the verge of splitting up.

ジュリーの結婚が破綻寸前であることに悲しくなった。

2.Her parents are rumoured to be on the verge of splitting up.

彼女の両親はもうすぐ離婚すると言われている。

3.The big Irishman was on the verge of losing his cool.

あの背の高いアイルランド人は冷静さを失いそうだ。

4.Carole was on the verge of tears.

キャロルはもう少しで泣きそうになった。

5.His voice trembled,on the verge of tears.

彼は声が震え、涙が目の縁を回っていた。