parliament
大学受験議会(英国など)
意味
- 議会,国会
- 《通例P-》《英》議会
例文
The queen is going to address parliament next week.
女王は来週、議会で演説するつもりでいる。
Do you know when the first parliament came into being?
議会が最初に生まれたのはいつだか知っていますか。
Parliament has its beginnings in 14th-century England.
議会は14世紀英国にその起源がある。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English parlement, from Anglo-Norman parliament, parlement, parliment and Old French parlement (“discussion, meeting, negotiation; assembly, council”), from parler (“to speak”) + -ment (“-ment”, suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually indicating an action or state resulting from them) (from Latin -mentum). Compare Medieval Latin parlamentum, parliamentum (“discussion, meeting; council or court summoned by the monarch”), Italian parlamento and Sicilian parramentu.