donjon
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A variant of dungeon remodelled on its etymon, Old French donjon.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɒn.d͡ʒən/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈdɑn.d͡ʒən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈdɔn.d͡ʒən/
Noun[edit]
donjon (plural donjons)
- The fortified tower and main residence of a motte or early castle; a keep.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 106:
- It was a fortress of no great size, consisting of a donjon, or large and high square tower, surrounded by buildings of inferior height, which were encircled by an inner court-yard.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 132:
- […] the prison fortress called Qomr, a mound of yellowish brick rising up from the left back of the turbid river, in whose donjon by long tradition the warlord was obliged to lay his head.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
fortified tower — see keep
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
donjon m (plural donjons, diminutive donjonnetje n)
Synonyms[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French donjon, from Vulgar Latin *dominiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
donjon m (plural donjons)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “donjon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
donjon
- Alternative form of dongeoun
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dominiōnem. Compare Old Occitan domnhon.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
donjon oblique singular, m (oblique plural donjons, nominative singular donjons, nominative plural donjon)
- keep, donjon
- 12th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:
- Li chiens gardoit par le donjon / Qar mis estoit a grant freor / Quant il ne voiet son seignor.
- The dog looked through the keep, for he felt a great terror when he couldn't see his master.
Descendants[edit]
- French: donjon (see there for further descendants)
- Picard: donjôn (Athois)
- → Middle English: dongeoun (partly)
- → Medieval Latin: donjōnus
References[edit]
- “donjon”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
- donjun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
donjon n (plural donjoane)
Declension[edit]
Declension of donjon
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) donjon | donjonul | (niște) donjoane | donjoanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) donjon | donjonului | (unor) donjoane | donjoanelor |
vocative | donjonule | donjoanelor |
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old French
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰengʰ-
- Dutch terms borrowed from French
- Dutch terms derived from French
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɔn
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Old French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Old French terms with quotations
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns