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• Launcelot

語源

From 中期英語 Launcelot, from Old French Lancelot, from Frankish *Lanzo, hypocoristic form of names beginning in *Land-, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), and diminutive Old French endings -el and -ot.

Related to 古期英語 Landbeorht (modern English Lambert).

発音

• IPA: /ˈlæn.sə.lɒt/, /ˈlɑːn.sə.lɒt/

固有名詞

Lancelot (countable and uncountable, plural Lancelots)

1. (Arthurian legend) One of the Knights of the Round Table, a lover of Guinevere.
2. A male given name from the Germanic languages.

   Synonym: Lance

   • 1921, P.G.Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, page 162:

     "What's the first name?" - - -
     "I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!"
     "Good God!" said Archie.
     "It couldn't really be that, could it?"
     Archie looked grave. He hated to give pain, but he felt he must be honest.
     "It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker."

3. A surname.
4. A ghost town in the Mid North region, South Australia, Australia.

派生した語

• → Chechen: Lancelot
• → Tagalog: Lancelot

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