suicide
要点自殺的行為,
意味
- 自殺
- 自殺的行為,自滅
- 自殺者;自殺行為
例文
She committed suicide by jumping off the bridge.
彼女は橋から身を投げて自殺した。
According to the newspaper, he committed suicide.
新聞によると彼が自殺したようだ。
He will commit suicide if he can't see his son.
彼は息子に会えなければ自殺するだろう。
語源
sui自分を＋-cide殺すこと
ラテン語風に作られた語で「自分(sui)を殺すこと(cide)」「自殺」。
homicide（殺人）、pesticide（殺虫剤）の-cideも「殺すこと」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
First attested in Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (1643) in noun sense 1, ostensibly from New Latin suīcīdium, from suī (genitive reflexive pronoun) + -cīdium (“act of killing or murder”), but often believed to have originated in English before entering Latin. Displaced native Middle English seolf-cwale from Old English selfcwalu (literally “self-slaughter”), after which suicide may have been modelled, or calqued (compare manuscript). Noun sense 3 is perhaps by analogy with words like homicide, patricide (see -cide), or, although unlikely, from Medieval Latin suīcīda; see the Etymology section at suīcīdium.