olden
意味
- 昔の
例文
The legend has come down in this district from olden times.
その伝説は昔からこの地方に伝わっている。
In olden times, football was popular in both Greece and Rome.
昔、フットボールはギリシャでもローマでも人気がありました。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English olden, probably originally an inflected plural form of old (compare Old English ealdum, dative plural of eald (“old”)), but later reanalysed as equivalent to old + -en (“made of”). Otherwise derived from Old Norse aldinn (“ancient, old”).