gaolとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 gayole, gaiol, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). See also cage.

発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒeɪl/
• 韻: -eɪl

名詞

gaol (countable and uncountable, plural gaols)

1. (British) Dated spelling of jail.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 42:

     There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning – he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way —

   • 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Scar”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:

     There was a simple reason for Sirius' complete absence from Harry's life until then – Sirius had been in Azkaban, the terrifying wizard gaol guarded by creatures called Dementors, […]

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:jail

派生語

関連する語

動詞

gaol (third-person singular simple present gaols, present participle gaoling, simple past and past participle gaoled)

1. (British) Dated spelling of jail.

使用する際の注意点

In British English, gaol was the more commonly published spelling between approximately 1730 and 1960, and it is still preferred in proper names in some regions. Most Australian newspapers use jail, citing either narrower print widths or the risk of transposing the letters in gaol to produce goal. In Canada, the most common spelling by far is jail, although a handful of legal writers still use gaol; see, for example, [1], para. 26.

The revised 10th edition of the Oxford Authors' and Printers' Dictionary (1965) cites jail, /-er as preferred. So, too, does the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (2005), "excepting usage in historical contexts".

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アナグラム

• algo-, Olga, gola, Gola, algo, Lago, goal, Galo