age
要点年齢、老齢、一時期、時代
意味
- (一般に)年齢,寿命;(個々の)年齢,年
- 成年(おとなとしての資格・権利を得る年齢;通例18または21歳)
- 老齢;《集合的に》老人たち
- (人生の)一時期;世代(generation)
- 《しばしばA-》(歴史上の)時代
- 《話》長い間
- 年をとる,ふける;〈物が〉古くなる
- 〈年〉をとらせる;〈物〉を古びさせる
例文
Wages vary in relation to the age of the worker.
給料は労働者の年齢との関連で異なってくる。
His old age is beginning to affect his eyesight.
老齢で目がよく見えなくなってきている。
She lived in five different countries by age 25.
二十五歳までに、彼女は異なる五つの国で暮らしてきた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge. Displaced native Old English ieldu. The verb is from Middle English agen, from the noun. Originally found mostly as a participial adjective, probably an adjective in -ed, derived from the noun, reanalyzed to create a verb; perhaps modeled on such pairs as Latin senēscō (seneō; verb) / senex (adjective) and Middle French vieillir (verb) / vieil (adjective). Also compare Old French se aagier, eogier (“become of age”).
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