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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈnjuː.əl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈnu.əl/, /ˈnju.əl/
• 韻: -uːəl, -uːl

語源 1

Inherited from 中期英語 nowel, *newel, from Old French noel, from either Early Medieval Latin nōdellus (“buckle”, diminutive of nōdus "knot") or Late Latin nucālis (“nut-like”, derivative of nux "nut"). Doublet of noil and noyau.

名詞

newel (plural newels)

1. Either of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.

   Synonym: newel post

   1. (architecture) A central pillar around which some types of spiral staircase are spiralled.

      Synonym: spindle

   2. (architecture) A sturdy pillar at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, supporting the handrail.

      Coordinate term: baluster

      • 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 238:

        We went along the hall to the end and up a flight of stairs with a carved handrail and newel post.

派生語

語源 2

From new +‎ -el, modelled after novel (“new, original”).

名詞

newel (plural newels)

1. (obsolete) A novelty; a new thing.

   Synonyms: newie, new one, newun, new'un

   • 1882: Edmund Spenser (Alexander Balloch Grosart, ed) The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser

     He was so enamoured with the newel.

Further reading

• newel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia