weapon
要点武器、攻撃(防御)手段
意味
- 武器,兵器
- 攻撃(防御)手段
例文
Patience is sometimes the most effective weapon.
忍耐はもっとも効果的な武器になることがある。
We think nuclear weapons will destroy our earth.
核兵器はわが地球を滅ぼすと思う。
They seem to be worrying about nuclear weapons.
彼らは核兵器のことを気にかけているようだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (“weapon”), of unknown origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wēbnom. Cognates Cognate with Scots weepon (“weapon”), North Frisian woopen (“weapon”), Saterland Frisian Woapen (“weapon”), West Frisian wapen (“weapon; coat of arms”), Alemannic German Waaffe (“tool”), Dutch wapen (“weapon”), German Waffe (“weapon”) and Wappen (“coat of arms”), Luxembourgish Waff (“weapon”), Yiddish וואָפֿן (vofn, “weapon”), Danish våben (“weapon; coat of arms”), Faroese vákn, vápn (“weapon; whaling lance”), Icelandic vopn (“weapon”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk våpen (“weapon”), Swedish va…