pillar

• 柱; 梁; 桟橋
• vt.柱で支える
• n. （柱）人名；（英）Pillar

ラテン語のpila（柱）が語源。

pillar

pillar: [13] Pillar comes ultimately from Latin pīla ‘pillar’ (source also of English compile, pilaster [16], and pile ‘heap’). In Vulgar Latin this was extended to *pīlāre, which passed into Anglo-Norman piler. This was the form in which English originally acquired it, and the -ar ending was not grafted on to it until the 14th century.
=> compile, pilaster, pile

pillar (n.)

c. 1200, from Old French piler "pillar, column, pier" (12c., Modern French pilier) and directly from Medieval Latin pilare, from Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier." Figurative sense of "prop or support of an institution or community" is first recorded early 14c. Phrase pillar to post is c. 1600, originally of tennis, exact meaning obscure.

1. She strove to read the name on the stone pillar .

彼女は石柱の名前を苦労して読んでいる。

2.He was a pillar of the club for over thirty years.

30年以上このクラブの大黒柱だった。

3.There is a pillar box at the street corner.

路地の角にポストがあります。

4.Some people enjoy that kind of life,drifting from pillar to post.

そんな生活が好きで、あちこちぶらぶらしている人もいる。

5.He dropped the letter into the pillar -box.

彼は手紙をポストに入れた。