gray(グレー)
要点灰色の、灰色
意味
- 灰色の,ねずみ色の,鉛色の
- (顔色が)青白い(pale)
- (空が)曇った
- (気持ちなどが)陰気な,寂しい(gloomy)
- しらがの多い
- 灰色,ねずみ色,鉛色
- 灰色の服
- 灰色の絵の具,灰色の染料
- 《gray,grey》《米》(南北戦争当時の)南軍兵士
- …を灰色にする
- 灰色(白髪)になる
例文
Her gray hair makes her look older than her age.
白髪のおかげで彼女は年よりふけて見える。
I like the gray sweater more than the purple one.
紫色のセーターより灰色のセーターの方が好きです。
The man must be over sixty, for his hair is gray.
その男性は60歳を超えているに違いない。髪が白髪だから。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey). Further derived from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).