交差点
解説 Definition
intersections は intersection（交差点、交わる場所）の複数形です。道路が交わる場所を複数まとめて指すときに使われ、図形や線が交わる点にも使えます。
Intersections is the plural of intersection. It refers to two or more places where roads cross or meet, and it can also denote multiple points or sets where lines, paths, shapes, or ideas overlap.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
単数形 intersection に複数の -s を付けた形で、語末は /z/ と発音する。inter-「互いに・間で」＋ section「切られた部分」を手掛かりに、複数の道が交わる場所を思い浮かべる。busy intersections、traffic lights at intersections の組み合わせで覚える。
Begin with the singular noun intersection and add plural -s; in intersections, the ending is pronounced /z/. The parts inter-, meaning “between or mutually,” and section, associated with cutting, suggest paths cutting across one another. Picture several road crossings on a map, each with traffic lights or turning vehicles. Useful combinations include busy intersections, dangerous intersections, main intersections, and slow down near intersections. The same image extends naturally from roads to lines or geometric figures that meet.
例文
There are traffic lights at the main intersections.
主要な交差点には信号があります。
The map shows three dangerous intersections.
その地図には危険な交差点が3か所示されています。
Drivers should slow down near busy intersections.
運転者は交通量の多い交差点の近くで速度を落とすべきです。
intersections の類義語・関連語
類義語
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intersections の語源・成り立ち Etymology
intersections は intersection の複数形で、語源はラテン語 intersectio です。inter-「間で」+ secare「切る」から成り、もとは「互いの間を切って横切ること」でした。道や線が切り合う像から「交差点」になり、関連語は section, dissect です。
Intersections is the regular plural of intersection. The noun came through Latin intersectio from intersecare, formed from inter-, “between” or “among,” and secare, “to cut.” Its earliest structure therefore suggests one line cutting across another. From that image, the word developed its familiar senses of a place where roads cross and a point or area shared by lines, shapes, sets, or activities.
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