英単語

eyrieの意味・使い方・発音

eyrie

英 ['ɪərɪ; 'aɪrɪ; 'eərɪ]
  • n. (鷲などの)巣;高山の住居(または城)。

語源


eyrie 鷲の巣。

aerieのスペル変化から。

英語の語源


eyrie
eyrie: [16] Latin ager (source of English agriculture and related to English acre) meant ‘field’, or more broadly ‘piece of land’. In postclassical times this extended via ‘native land’ to ‘lair of a wild animal, particularly a bird of prey’, the meaning of its Old French descendant aire. The Old French form was taken back into medieval Latin as aeria, the immediate source of the English word.
=> acre, agriculture
eyrie
see aerie.

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