meat
要点動物の肉、食物
意味
- (食用の)動物の肉
- 《英古》《米文》(一般的に)食物(food)
- (果実などの)食用部分,果肉
- (議論・書物などの)最も重要な部分,主眼点,骨子《+of+名》
例文
The heat was responsible for the meat going bad.
肉が腐ったのは暑さのためです。
She patted the hamburger meat into a flat shape.
彼女はハンバーグの肉をたたいて平たくした。
The ground beef was found to contain horse meat.
牛ミンチに馬肉が混入しているのが見つかりました。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English mete (“food”), from Old English mete (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati (“food”), from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to be wet; grease, fat”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian Miit (“meat”), Danish mad (“food”), Faroese and Icelandic matur (“food, meal”), Norn mader (“food”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mat (“food”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats, “food”). A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met (“lean pork”), from which Dutch met (“minced pork”) and German Mett (“minced meat”) derive, respectively.