veteran

• n. a veteran; ベテラン; 経験者; ベテラン選手
• adj.経験豊富な; ベテラン

PIE*wetから、年、年齢、語源はwetherと同じ。語源は経験豊富な、引退した退役軍人。

veteran

veteran: [16] Veteran comes via French vétéran from Latin veterānus ‘old’. This was a derivative of vetus ‘old’, which is the ancestor of French vieux, Italian vecchio, and Spanish viejo. It went back ultimately to Indo-European *wetus- (source also of Latvian vecs ‘old’). This may be related to Greek étos ‘year’, in which case ‘old’ could derive from an ancestral meaning ‘full of years’.

veteran (n.)

c. 1500, "old experienced soldier," from French vétéran, from Latin veteranus "old, aged, that has been long in use," especially of soldiers; as a plural noun, "old soldiers," from vetus (genitive veteris) "old, aged, advanced in years; of a former time," as a plural noun, vetores, "men of old, forefathers," from PIE *wet-es-, from root *wet- (2) "year" (cognates: Sanskrit vatsa- "year," Greek etos "year," Hittite witish "year," Old Church Slavonic vetuchu "old," Old Lithuanian vetu?as "old, aged;" and compare wether). Latin vetus also is the ultimate source of Italian vecchio, French vieux, Spanish viejo. General sense of "one who has seen long service in any office or position" is attested from 1590s. The adjective first recorded 1610s.

1. He is a veteran parliamentarian whose views enjoy widespread respect.

彼はベテラン議員であり、その観点は広く尊重されている。

2.It is understood that the veteran reporter had a heart attack.

そのベテラン記者が心臓発作を起こしたという。

3.the veteran British actor，Sir Richard Attenborough

英国のベテラン俳優リチャード？アーテンバーラー卿

4.My grandfather is a veteran of the Second World War.

祖父は第二次世界大戦当時の老兵だった。

5.He was a Vietnam veteran with a haunted mien.

彼はベトナム戦争の老兵で、振る舞いはいつも恐縮している。