lintel: [14] Lintel is the result of the blending of two Latin words: līmes ‘boundary’ (source of English limit) and līmen ‘threshold’ (source of English subliminal and possibly also of sublime). Līmen had a derived adjective, līmināris ‘of a threshold’. In the post-classical period, under the influence of līmes, this became altered to *līmitāris, which was used in Vulgar Latin as a noun meaning ‘threshold’. This passed into English via Old French lintier, later lintel. => limit, subliminal
lintel (n.)
early 14c., from Old French lintel "threshold" (13c., Modern French linteau), of uncertain origin, probably a variant of lintier, from Vulgar Latin *limitaris "threshold," from Latin limitaris (adj.) "that is on the border," from limes (genitive limitis) "border, boundary" (see limit (n.)). Altered by influence of Latin limen "threshold."
例文
1. Under the bed，on the lintel ，in the barn-everywhere.But no sign of it.
私たちのベッドの下、ドアの上、倉の角の中、どこが見つかりませんか？
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2.That Song Dynasty lintel etched with a frenzy of folk scenes？
熱狂的な民俗シーンをエッチングしている宋代の石彫刻梁？
3.Morgenes had to grasp the door lintel to keep from toppling.
Morgenesは転落しないように、ドアのまぐれをつかんでおかなければならなかった。
4.Some of the monument 's standing stones have lintel stones on top.
イングランドのソールズベリー市付近の平坦で多風なソールズベリー平原にそびえ立つ。
5.Thus the post and lintel frame was eventually created.