vicinity

• n.近隣、近辺、近接

PIE*weikから、一族、村、家族、社会単位、語源は村、経済、グリーンウィックと同じ。

vicinity

vicinity: [16] Latin vīcus meant ‘group of houses, village’ (it is related to the -wich or -wick of English place-names, which originally meant ‘hamlet, town’). From it was derived vīcīnus ‘neighbouring’, which in turn produced vīcīnitās ‘neighbourhood’, source of English vicinity.

vicinity (n.)

1550s, "nearness in place," from Middle French vicinité and directly from Latin vicinitas "of or pertaining to neighbors or a neighborhood," as a noun, "neighborhood, nearness, proximity," from vicinus (adj.) "of the neighborhood, near, neighboring," as a noun "the neighborhood, a neighbor," from vicus "group of houses, village," related to the -wick, -wich in English place names, from PIE *weik- (1) "clan, social unit above the household" (see villa). Meaning "neighborhood, surrounding district" in English is attested by 1796.

1. Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity .

近隣地域に戻って仕事をしている人は数人しかいません。

2.Crowds gathered in the vicinity of Trafalgar Square.

群れをなした人がトラファルガー広場の周りに集まっている。

3.He told us there was no hotel in the vicinity .

彼は私たちに近くにホテルがないと言った。

4.There 's a factory in the vicinity of the school.

学校の近くに工場がある。

5. There are green and lush vegetable plots [ beds ] in our vicinity .

私たちの住まいの周りには緑豊かな野菜畑が広がっています。