big
要点大きい、重要な
意味
- (大きさ・高さ・広さ・数量・容積などについて)大きい
- 成長した(grown-up),成熟した;年長の(older)
- 《話》重要な
- 尊大な,ごう慢な
- 寛大な,心の大きい
- 《補語にのみ用いて》(…に)満ちて《+with+名》
- 《補語にのみ用いて》(子を)宿して《+with+名》
- 偉らそうに;大きく
例文
That house is small, but it's big enough for us.
その家は小さいが、私たちには十分だ。
A big tree in the field was struck by lightning.
野原の大木に落雷があった。
My nose is really big, and it's crooked as well.
私の鼻は、とても大きく、しかも曲がっている。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug. Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.