gloss
意味
- 光沢,つや;光沢のある表面
- 《単数形で》見せかけ,虚飾
- …の光沢(つや)を出す
- (行間・ページの下段・巻末に付けられた)注釈,解説
- (巻末などに付けた)語い集,用語解説
- …に注釈を付ける,を注解する
例文
The new employee glossed over his first mistake.
新入社員は初めての失敗をうまくいいぬけた。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Probably from a North Germanic language, compare Icelandic glossi (“spark, flame”), glossa (“to flame”); or perhaps from dialectal Dutch gloos (“a glow, flare”), related to West Frisian gloeze (“a glow”), Middle Low German glȫsen (“to smoulder, glow”), German glosen (“to smoulder”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *glus- (“to glow, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to flourish; be green or yellow”). More at glow.