fairy
要点妖精
意味
- 妖精(ようせい)
- 妖精の
- 妖精のような,優美な
例文
The children were enthralled by the fairy tale.
子供たちはそのおとぎ話に心を奪われた。
Fiction is as old as fairy tales and myths.
小説はおとぎ話や神話と同じぐらい古い。
The little girl was absorbed in reading a fairy tale.
少女はおとぎ話を読むのに夢中だった。
語源
fai妖精（fay）＋-ryこと・所
ラテン語fata「運命の女神」から来たfay（妖精）＋-ry。もとは「魔法・妖精の国」を指し、のちに一人ひとりの「妖精」に。
fate（運命）と同じ語源。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English faierie, fairie, from Old French faerie, from fae (from Latin fāta (“goddess of fate”)) + -erie. Equivalent to fay + -ry. Attested in English from about 1330, in King Alisaunder, first in the sense of "enchantment, illusion, dream" ("that thou herdest is fairye") and shortly thereafter "realm of the fays, fairy-land" and "the inhabitants of fairyland, collectively". The re-interpretation of the term as a countable noun denoting individual inhabitants of fairy-land can be traced to the 1390s, but became common only in the 16th century, perhaps due to reinterpreting phrases like faerie knight.