Old English spir "a sprout, shoot, spike, blade, tapering stalk of grass," from Proto-Germanic *spiraz (cognates: Old Norse spira "a stalk, slender tree," Dutch spier "shoot, blade of grass," Middle Low German spir "a small point or top"), from PIE *spei- "sharp point" (see spike (n.1)). Meaning "tapering top of a tower or steeple" first recorded 1590s (a sense attested in Middle Low German since late 14c. and also found in the Scandinavian cognates).
spire (v.)
early 14c., "send up shoots," from spire (n.). Related: Spired; spiring.
例文
1. The spire of the tower dominates the foreground.
塔の先端は将来性の中で主要な地位を占めている。
2.The church spire was struck by lightning.
教会の尖頭に落雷があった。
3.The tower culminates in a 40-foot spire .
この塔の先端は40フィートの高さの塔の先端である。
4.No one would dream of straightening out the knobbly spire at Empingham Church.
誰もエム平漢教会のでこぼこの尖った屋根をまっすぐにすることはできない。
5.When they came to build the southern spire the foundations began to sink.