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語源

From 中期英語 belfry, bellfray, belfray, berfrey, barfray, from Old French belfroi, berfroi, berfrey, from Late Latin berfrēdus, from Frankish *bergafriþu, from Proto-Germanic *bergafriþuz, equivalent to barrow +‎ frith. English forms containing bel- as opposed to ber- were preferred due to false association with English bell. Cognate with Middle High German bërcvrit, bërvrit (“defensive tower”) (modern German Bergfried), Middle Dutch bergfrede, bergfert. Doublet of bergfried.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbɛlfɹi/, enPR: bĕlʹfrē
• 韻: -ɛlfɹi

名詞

belfry (plural belfries)

1. (architecture) A tower or steeple typically containing bells, especially as part of a church.
   • 2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (9:33 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 5, episode 9, spoken by The Guide (Kristen Schaal):

     “You know, this house does have a belfry filled with local bats. Maybe Laszlo went up there.” “Oh, so like my darling perverted husband, to sniff out the local bordello immediately upon arrival. [chuckles] Could you take me to the belfry?”

2. (architecture) A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

3. (dialectal) A shed.
4. (obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
5. (obsolete) An alarm-tower; a watchtower possibly containing an alarm-bell.

派生語

参照

• Michael Quinion (2004), “Belfry”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.