meal
要点食事
意味
- (一定の時刻に定められた)食事;食事の時間
- (1回分の)食事,(食事1回分の)食べ物
- (穀物・豆類などの,ふるいにかけない)あら粉
例文
The price of the meal includes a service charge.
食事代はサービス料も込みになっています。
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
朝食は一日で一番大切な食事です。
She turned up just as we were starting our meal.
私たちがちょうど食事を始めようとしたとき彼女が現れた。
語源
古英語mæl「決まった時刻・機会」から。食べる決まった時刻「食事」。
piecemeal(少しずつ)のmealも「回・区切り」。
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English mel, from Old English mǣl (“measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Cognate with West Frisian miel, Dutch maal (“meal, time, occurrence”), German Mal (“time”), Mahl (“meal”), Norwegian Bokmål mål (“meal”), Swedish mål (“meal”); and (from Proto-Indo-European) with Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”), Latin mensus, Russian ме́ра (méra, “measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas. Related to Old English mǣþ (“measure, degree, proportion”).