evil
要点邪悪な、不吉な、悪、害悪
意味
- (思想・行動などが)邪悪な,罪深い
- 害を与える,有害な
- 不吉な;不運な
- 悪,罪悪
- 害悪,悪弊
- 不幸,不運
- 悪く
例文
It's hard to get to the bottom of good and evil.
善悪を見極めることは難しい。
The evil spirit was driven away from the house.
悪霊は、家から追い払われました。
They say the gods smite evil with thunderbolts.
諸神は悪を雷で打つという。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). See -le for the supposed suffix. Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch euvel (“evil”), German übel (“bad, evil”), German Low German övel (“evil”), Luxembourgish iwwel (“queasy, nauseous; bad”), Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”).