dignity
大学受験威厳・尊厳（human ~）
意味
- 尊厳,威厳,気高さ
- 品位,気品
- 高位
- 《古》高位の人
例文
The Renaissance established the dignity of man.
ルネサンスは人間の尊厳を確立した。
The prisoner of war bore himself with great dignity.
その捕虜には威厳があった。
You don't have proper dignity as chief of the section.
君は課長としての貫禄がないね。
語源
dignふさわしい・価値ある＋-ityこと
ラテン語dignus「値する・ふさわしい」から。尊敬に値すること「尊厳・威厳」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English dignyte, from Old French dignité, from Latin dignitās (“worthiness, merit, dignity, grandeur, authority, rank, office”), from dignus (“worthy, appropriate”), from Proto-Italic *degnos, from Proto-Indo-European *dḱ-nos, from *deḱ- (“to take”). See also decus (“honor, esteem”) and decet (“it is fitting”). Cognate to deign. Doublet of dainty. In this sense, displaced native Old English weorþsċipe, which became Modern English worship. It also displaced native Old English hād (“honor, dignity”).