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別の表記

• loover (archaic)
• louvre (mainly UK)
• lover (obsolete)
• lovour (obsolete)
• luffer

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 lover, from Old French lovier, lover (“skylight”), from Medieval Latin *lōdārium (attested as lōvārium), extension of lōdium, of unclear origin, but probably of Germanic origin and related to Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”).

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: lo͞oʹvə, IPA: /ˈluːvə/
• (General American) enPR: lo͞oʹvər, IPA: /ˈluːvɚ/
• 韻: -uːvə(ɹ)

名詞

louver (plural louvers)

1. A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But darknesse dred and daily night did hover / Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt; / Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover, / But with continuall candle-light […].

2. (chiefly in the plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. [from 16th c.]
3. Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.

派生語

• louvered, louvred

参考

• jalousie

アナグラム

• Louvre, louvre, velour