バッテリー

バッテリー · batterii · JLPT N1 · noun

battery

🔋 From English battery, from Latin battuere to beat, the same root as a battery of cannons firing together.

The English word first meant a group of cannons firing together, then a group of linked cells. バッテリー is the English word in katakana, with the long-vowel mark ー at the end.

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