carpenter
要点大工
意味
- 大工(だいく)
例文
My father and my younger sister are carpenters.
父と妹は大工さんです。
Abraham Lincoln's father was a carpenter by trade.
アブラハム・リンカーンの父の職業は大工だった。
I work as a carpenter in a furniture factory.
家具工場で、家具工をしています。
語源
ラテン語carpentarius「二輪の荷車を作る人」から（もとはケルト語）。木で車を作る職人「大工」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car. Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).