messenger
要点使いの者
意味
- 使いの者,走り使い;(電報・郵便物・小包の)配達人;(公文書の)送達吏
例文
Instead of going myself, I sent a messenger.
私は自分で行く代わりに、使いの者を送った。
Hey, don't blame me. I'm just the messenger.
おい、俺を責めるなよ。俺はただ話を伝えただけなんだから。
The messenger left for London in secret.
使者はひそかにロンドンへ出発した。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager. Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”). For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).