terre-pleinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A borrowing of French terre-plein.

名詞

terre-plein (plural terre-pleins)

1. Alternative form of terreplein
   • 1878, "Peking" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XVIII, p. 469:

     The terre-plein is well and smoothly paved, and is defended by a crenellated parapet.

別の表記

• terre-plein
• (obsolete) terraplene, teraplene, terrepleine
• (obsolete misspellings) terraplana, terraplane, terraplain, terreplaine, terreplain

語源

Originally a borrowing of Italian terrapieno (“earth-fill(ed)”), later altered after the model of French terreplein (now terre-plein). Its former misspellings arose from confusion of the second element of the name with Italian piano or French plain, plane (“flat, level”) based on the appearance of the earth-filled central platforms of walls.

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɛɹəpleɪn/, /ˈtɛə(ɹ)pleɪn/

名詞

terreplein (plural terrepleins)

1. (obsolete military) The sloping earthen embankment behind a defensive wall.
2. (military) The level platform atop a wall, typically protected by a parapet and (strictly) distinguished from the slightly higher banquette used by its defenders.
3. (military) Any level base used by artillery in the field.
4. (civil engineering) Any earthen embankment with a broad level top, such as those used for a canal elevated above a valley floor.

同意語

• (sloping earthen embankment): talus

参照

• “terreplein, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1911.