month
要点月
意味
- (またcalendar month)(暦の上の1月から12月までのそれぞれの)月
- (ある日から翌月のその日までの)ひと月,1か月間
- (またlunar month)(太陰暦の)ひと月(月が地球の周りを1公転する期間;太陽暦ではsolar month)
例文
It was this hospital which I visited last month.
私が先日訪れたのはこの病院だ。
I will have lived here for ten years next month.
来月でここに１０年間住んだことになります。
She deposits 10,000 yen in the bank every month.
彼女は毎月１万円を銀行に預金している。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English mon(e)th, from Old English mōnaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably derived from *meh₁- (“measure”) with moon-cycles being used to measure time. Related to moon. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mound (“month”), Dutch maand (“month”), German Low German Maand (“month”), German Monat (“month”), Danish måned (“month”), Swedish månad (“month”), Icelandic mánuður (“month”). Eclipsed non-native Old English calend (“month”), borrowed from Latin calendae.