cottageとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutan, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, also compare Dutch and English hut.^[1][2]

Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of 古期英語 cot of same Proto-Germanic origin.

Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.

発音

• (General American)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈkɑtɪdʒ/, [ˈkɑɾɪdʒ]
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑtədʒ/, [ˈkɑɾədʒ]
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒtɪdʒ/
• ハイフネーション: cot‧tage

名詞

cottage (複数形 cottages)

1. A small house.

   Synonyms: cot, hut

2. A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”

   Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

4. (Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.

   Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, tea house (米国用法)

派生語

• cottage cheese
• cottage food operation‎
• cottage hospital
• cottage industry
• telecottage

関連する語

• cosset
• cot
• coterie

派生した語

• → French: cottage

動詞

cottage (三人称単数 現在形 cottages, 現在分詞 cottaging, 過去形および過去分詞形 cottaged)

1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
2. (intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

Further reading

• cottage on Wikipedia.

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