tile
要点タイル
意味
- (床・壁用の)タイル;屋根がわら;《集合的に》タイル,かわら
- (ドミノなどゲームの)こま,(マージャンの)牌
- (下水・煙突などの)土管,コンクリート管
- …にタイルを張る;〈屋根〉をかわらでふく
例文
The tile that fell from the roof broke into pieces.
屋根から落ちてきたタイルは粉々に砕けた。
The tiles that fell from the roof broke into pieces.
屋根から落ちてきたタイルは粉々に砕けた。
The tiles that fell from the roof broke into very small pieces.
屋根から落ちてきたタイルは粉々に砕けた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English tile, tyl, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tiġele, tieġle, tiġle (“tile, brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā (“tile, brick”), from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile, brick”), from Latin tēgula, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”). Doublet of tegula. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel (“brick”), tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick, roof tile”), Luxembourgish Zill (“brick, tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Faroese tigul (“tile”), Icelandic tigl (“brick, tile”), Norwegian Nynorsk tegl (“brick, roof tile”), Swedish tegel (“brick, tile”), Asturian teya (“tile”), Catalan teula (“tile”), French tuile (“tile”), Galician telha,…