branch
要点枝、支流、支店、支部、部門
意味
- 枝
- 支流,支脈,支線;分家
- 支店,支部,支局
- (学問の)部門,分科
- 枝を出す,枝を広げる
- (川・道・鉄道などが)分岐する
例文
The lamp was suspended from the branch of a tree.
ランプが木の枝から吊り下げられた。
The branch began to bend as I climbed along it.
私が登るにつれて枝が曲がりはじめた。
That branch is affiliated to the miners' union.
あの支部は炭鉱労働組合に属している。
語源
後期ラテン語branca「動物の足」から。足の指のように分かれて伸びるもの「枝」枝分かれした「支流・支店・部門」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin. Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”). The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun.