castle
要点城
意味
- 城,とりで
- (一般に)大邸宅,やかた
- (またrook)(チェスのこまの)城将
- (チェスで)〈王〉をルーク(城将)で守る
- 〈王が〉ルーク(城将)で守られる
例文
The castle stands three miles north of the town.
その城は町から北へ３マイルのところにある。
This is the guide who took us around the castle.
この方が私達のために城内を案内してくれた人です。
There was an old castle to the east of the town.
その町の東の方に古い城があった。
語源
ラテン語castrum「とりで」に「小さい」がついた形から。小さなとりで「城」。
英国の地名の-chester、-casterもcastrum由来。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English castle, castel, from late Old English castel, castell (“a town, village”), borrowed from Late Latin castellum (“small camp, fort”), diminutive of Latin castrum (“camp, fort, citadel, stronghold”). Doublet of cashel, castell, castellum, and château. Parallel borrowings (from Late Latin or Old French) are Scots castel, castell (“castle”), West Frisian kastiel (“castle”), Dutch kasteel (“castle”), German Kastell (“castle”), Danish kastel (“citadel”), Swedish kastell (“citadel”), Icelandic kastali (“castle”), Welsh castell. The late Old English word was borrowed from biblical Latin castellum which has been translated as town or village.