chancellor
意味
- (西独・オーストリアなどの)首相
- (アメリカのいくつかの大学で)総長,学長
- 《米》衡平法裁判所(court of equity)の判事
- (国王などの)秘書;(外交官の)一等書記官
- 各種の高官の称号
例文
The German Chancellor is plagued by immigration problems.
ドイツの首相は移民問題に悩まされています。
Gerhard Schroeder is the first German chancellor not to have lived through World War II.
ゲアハルト・シュレーダーは第二次世界大戦を経験していない初のドイツ首相です。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Anglo-Norman or Middle English chaunceler, chanceler, canceler (“chief administrative or executive officer of a ruler; chancellor, secretary; private secretary, scribe; Lord Chancellor of England; officer of the ruler's exchequer; a high administrative or executive officer (for example, a deputy or representative of a bishop; the head of a university)”), from Old French cancelier, chancelier (“chancellor”), from Late Latin cancellārius (“secretary; doorkeeper, porter; usher of a court of law stationed at the bars separating the public from the judges”), from Latin cancellī (plural of cancellus (“grate; bars, barrier; railings”), diminutive of cancer (“grid; barrier”), from Proto-Italic…