villain
要点悪者
意味
- 悪者,悪漢,悪党
- (劇・小説などの)悪役,かたき役
- 《おどけて》小僧,やつ
- 《英話》犯人
- =villein
例文
One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
一人殺せば悪人となるが何百万人を殺せば英雄となる。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Probably from Middle English vilein, from Old French vilein (modern French vilain), in turn from Late Latin vīllānus, meaning serf or peasant, someone who is bound to the soil of a Latin vīlla, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul. Doublet of villein. Compare typologically pagan (see more).