crenellationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From crenellate +‎ -ion (suffix indicating an action or process, or its result). Crenellate is derived from French créneler (“to form the shape of a crenel, crenellate”), from Old French crenel (“crenel, embrasure”) (modern French créneau) (from Latin *crēnella, diminutive of crēna (“incision; notch”); compare Old French cren (“a notch”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first conjugation verbs).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌkɹɛnəlˈeɪʃən/, /ˌkɹɛnɪˈleɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌkɹɛnəˈleɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən
• ハイフネーション: cre‧nel‧lat‧ion

名詞

crenellation (countable and uncountable, plural crenellations)

1. (countable, uncountable) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/6/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.

   • 2011, Bethesda, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, scene: From the in-game book Thief:

     And so, when the noon sun was shining over the palace, Eslaf quickly scaled the wall near the front gate and waited, hidden in the crenelations. The interior courtyard was plain and desolate, with few places to hide, but he saw that there were two wells.

2. (uncountable) The act of crenellating; adding a top row that looks like the top of a medieval castle.
3. (countable) Any of a series of notches with fancied resemblance to such battlements, as for example around the bezel of a flashlight.

別の表記

• crenelation

上位語

• battlement

等位語

• castellation (overlaps synonymously in the architectural sense; coordinate in the machinery sense, whereas the same concept is invoked but the words are used in idiomatically non-interchangeable ways, as with crenellated flashlight bezels but castellated nuts)

関連する語

• crenel
• crenellate
• crenellated
• licence to crenellate

参照

Further reading

• crenellation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• centrolineal