contraction
意味
- (…の)収縮,短縮《+of+名》
- (通貨・資金・支出などの)縮小,節減《+of+名》
- (いやなこと・よくないことを)身に負うこと,(悪習などが)身につくこと《+of+名》
- 陣痛
例文
My contractions last about forty-five seconds.
陣痛が約４５秒続きます。
How far apart are the contractions?
陣痛の間隔はどれくらいですか。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
PIE word *ḱóm From Late Middle English contraccioun, contraxion (“spasm, contraction; constriction, shrinking; act of pressing together”), from Old French contraction (modern French contraction), from Latin contractiō(n) (“a drawing together, contraction; abridgement, shortening; dejection, despondency”), from contrahō (“to draw things together, assemble, collect, gather; to enter into a contract”) + -tiō(n) (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Contrahō is derived from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of objects) + trahō (“to drag, pull”) (probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)).
辞書順で近い単語
contraception contract contracted contractor contradict contradiction