nursery
要点子供部屋
意味
- 子供部屋,育児室
- 苗床,苗木畑
例文
The youngest child spent every morning at a nursery.
一番下の子は毎日午前中を保育園ですごしました。
My little sister goes to nursery school.
僕の妹は幼稚園に通っている。
The nursery toilet door was shut.
託児所のトイレのドアは閉まっていた。
語源
nurse乳母・世話する人＋-ery場所
「乳母(nurse)がいる場所(-ery)」子どもを世話する「子供部屋・保育所」。さらに苗を育てる「苗床」にも。
nurse・nourish（養う）と同じ仲間。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin nūtrīcia (“wet nurse”), from Latin nūtrīcius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from nūtriō (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse + -ery (suffix forming nouns meaning ‘place of’).