recluse

• n. 仙人; 世捨て人
• adj.隠者

re-、強調、-clus、close、語源的にはclose、閉所恐怖症と同じ。

recluse

recluse: [13] A recluse is etymologically a person who is ‘shut up’. The word was borrowed from reclus, the past participle of Old French reclure ‘shut up’. This was descended from Latin reclūdere, a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘again’ and claudere ‘shut’ (source of English close) which originally, paradoxically, meant ‘open’ – the notion being ‘reversing the process of closing’. ‘Shut up’ emerged in the post-classical period.
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recluse (n.)

c. 1200, "person shut up from the world for purposes of religious meditation," from Old French reclus (fem. recluse) "hermit, recluse," also "confinement, prison; convent, monastery," noun use of reclus (adj.) "shut up," from Late Latin reclusus, past participle of recludere "to shut up, enclose" (but in classical Latin "to throw open"), from Latin re-, intensive prefix, + claudere "to shut" (see close (v.)).

1. to lead the life of a recluse

隠居生活を送る

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2.His widow became a virtual recluse for the remaider of her life.

彼の後妻は寂しく余生を過ごした。

3.She can 't just be written off as an eccentric recluse .

彼女を奇妙な隠遁者としてだけではいけない。

4.All these years,Eric had lived as a recluse .

ここ数年来、エリックは隠遁生活を送っている。

5.The old recluse secluded himself from the outside world.

この老隠居者は外の世界から隔絶されている。