Flandersとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Flaunders, Flaundress, flawndirs, from Old French Flandres, from Middle Dutch Vlâendren pl, from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-Germanic *flaumdrą (“waterlogged land”), from *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) (compare Old High German weraltfloum (“transitoriness of life”), Old Norse flaumr (“eddy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *plow-m- (“flow”) (compare Ancient Greek πλῠ́μα (plŭ́ma, “dishwater, washing water”)). More at flow. "Waterlogged" refers to the mudflats and salt marshes common to coastal Flanders.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈflɑːn.dəz/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈflæn.dɚz/
• 韻: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːndə(ɹ)z, (General American) -ændə(ɹ)z

固有名詞

Flanders (countable and uncountable, plural Flanderses)

1. A cultural region in the north of Belgium.
   • 2008 May 14, Steven Erlanger, “Seams of Belgium’s Quilt Threaten to Burst”, in The New York Times‎:

     But Wallonian legislators are blocking the changes, fearing that their power is eroding, that the Flemish are doing some legal ethnic cleansing and that a divided Belgium will end the subsidies that flow south from richer Flanders.

2. A historical county of Western Europe; in full, County of Flanders.
   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.

3. A region of Belgium. Official name: Flemish Region.
4. A community of Belgium. Official name: Flemish Community.
5. Two provinces in Belgian Flanders, West Flanders and East Flanders.

   Ellipsis of West Flanders: a province of Flanders, Belgium.

   Ellipsis of East Flanders: a province of Flanders, Belgium.

6. Ellipsis of French Flanders: a former province of France.
7. Ellipsis of French Flanders: a region of France.
8. Ellipsis of Zeelandic Flanders: a region of Zeeland, the Netherlands.
9. The principal railway station in Lille, capital of the above.
10. An unincorporated community in Mount Olive, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
11. A surname.

関連する語

参考

• Belgium
• Brussels
• Wallonia

アナグラム

• Ferlands, Fernalds, snarfled