room(ルーム)
要点部屋、室、場所
意味
- 部屋,室
- (人・物の占める)場所,空間(space)
- (事を)受け入れる余地《+for+名(doing)》
- 《the room》《集合的に》部屋にいる人々,同席している人たち
- 《複数形で》(一部屋または数部屋ある)貨し間,下宿
- (…に)下宿する,間借りする《+at+名〈場所〉,+with+名〈人〉》
例文
You are always to knock before entering my room.
私の部屋に入る前にあなたはいつもノックをすべきだ。
It is hard work to keep my room in proper order.
自分の部屋をきちんとしておくことはたいへんなことです。
The father carried his son bodily from the room.
父親は息子の体をかついで部屋から運び出した。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English roum (“room, space”), from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (“to root; to rip, tear”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, open”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian rüm (“room, space”), Saterland Frisian and Low German Ruum (“room, space”), Dutch ruim (“open space; cargo hold”), German and Luxembourgish Raum (“room, space”), Vilamovian raojm (“room”), Danish and Swedish rum (“room, space”), Faroese and Icelandic rúm (“space, room”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk rom (“room, space”), Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌼 (rum, “room, space”); also Irish rúsc (“bark”), Manx roost (“bark; p…