loud
要点大きい、騒々しい、大声で
意味
- (音・声が)大きい,大きな音を出す
- 騒々しい;はでな,人目を引く
- 大声で,声高に
例文
Is loud music OK with the neighbors at this hour?
遅くまで音楽かけているけど、ご近所さんは平気?
There came a loud knock on the on the front door.
玄関の戸をたたく大きな音がきこえた。
I call out in a loud voice but there is no reply.
大声を出して呼ぶが返事がない。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hlūd (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlūd, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz, *hlūþaz (“heard”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewtos (“heard, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). More at listen. Cognates Akin to Scots loud, lowd (“loud”), Swedish ljud, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lyd, Faroese ljóð, Icelandic hljóð, West Frisian lûd (“loud”), Dutch luid (“loud”), Low German lud (“loud”), German laut (“loud”), Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin laudare (“praise”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek κλυτός (klutós,…