womb
意味
- 子宮
- 《比喩的に》物の発生(成長)するところ
例文
Babies grow up inside the amniotic fluid in the womb.
赤ちゃんは子宮内の羊水で発育します。
The national health service takes care of you from womb to tomb.
国民保健サービスは、生涯に渡ってあなたのお世話を致します。
The child followeth the womb.
子供は子宮に従う。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”).