intensive
英検2級・大学受験集中的な、集中的な（intenseと区別）
意味
- 集中的な,徹底的な,強度の,激しい
- (語が)強意の,強調の
- =intensifier
例文
The intensive course did wonders for my French.
集中講習で私のフランス語は驚くほど上達した。
Extensive reading is as important as intensive reading.
多読は精読と同様重要である。
Capital-intensive industries are not necessarily knowledge-intensive industries.
資本集約産業は必ずしも知識集約産業ではない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English intensive (“fervent, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intensif, intensive (modern French intensif) + Middle English -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of, relating to’ forming adjectives), equivalent to intense + -ive. Intensif is from Medieval Latin intēnsīvus, from Latin intēnsus (“attentive; eager, intent; intensive”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘doing; related to doing’); and intēnsus is the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch, stretch out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)).…