arbourの意味・使い方・発音

arbour

英 ['ɑːbə] 美 ['ɑrbɚ]

arbour: arbour: [14] Despite its formal resemblance to, and semantic connections with, Latin arbor ‘tree’, arbour is not etymologically related to it. In fact, its nearest English relative is herb. When it first came into English it was erber, which meant ‘lawn’ or ‘herb/flower garden’. This was borrowed, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French erbier, a derivative of erbe ‘herb’.

This in turn goes back to Latin herba ‘grass, herb’ (in the 16th century a spelling with initial h was common in England). Gradually, it seems that the sense ‘grassy plot’ evolved to ‘separate, secluded nook in a garden’; at first, the characteristic feature of such shady retreats was their patch of grass, but their seclusion was achieved by surrounding trees or bushes, and eventually the criterion for an arbour shifted to ‘being shaded by trees’.

Training on a trellis soon followed, and the modern arbour as ‘bower’ was born. The shift from grass and herbaceous plants to trees no doubt prompted the alteration in spelling from erber to arbour, after Latin arbor; this happened in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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arbour (n.): chiefly British English spelling of arbor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or.

1. They sat in the arbour and chatted over tea.: 彼らはあずまやに座って、お茶を飲みながらおしゃべりをしています。

2.Benedick was quietly seated reading in an arbour .

ペニディクは涼しいあずまやに静かに座って本を読んでいる。

3. Arbour warned delegates to the U.N.Human Rights Council against pursuing narrow parochial political agendas.: アルブールは、狭い政治目標を求めるなと国連人権理事会の代表たちに警告した。