normal（ノーマル）
要点正常な、通常の
意味
- 正常な,通常の,標準の
- (人が肉体・知能・情緒の発達において)平均的な,年齢相応の
- (線などが)垂直な;(…に)垂直な《+to+名》
普通の;典型的な;直角をなす (to)
(実験動物が)常態の, 未処置[未免疫]の;(濃度が)規定の
常態;垂線, 法線;平均量[値]正常,通常;標準
例文
My normal body temperature is around 37 degrees.
僕は平熱が37度くらいなんだ。
Temperatures are higher than normal this winter.
今年の冬は、気温が平年より高めです。
This winter, temperatures are higher than normal.
今年の冬は、気温が平年より高めです。
語源
ラテン語norma「大工の直角定規」から。定規に合っている基準どおりの「正常な・普通の」。
norm（標準）と同じ語。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Latin normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square; later: according to a rule”), from nōrma (“carpenter's square”), of uncertain origin; equivalent to norm + -al, doublet of normale. The earliest meaning of the word in English was "perpendicular; forming a right angle" like something normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square”), but by Late Latin normālis had also come to mean "according to a rule", from which modern English senses of the word derive: in the 1800s, as people began to quantitatively study things like height, weight and blood pressure, the usual or most common values came to be called "normal", and by extension values regarded as healthy or desirable came to…
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