merlon

Signification (Anglais)

Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons.

Concepts

merlon

crénau

crénelure

Merlon

Synonymes

battlement

crenellation

embattlement

castellation

Traductions

Zinne

kanteel

merlo

merlet

almena

merlón

ameia

merlão

تزويد بفتحات نار

mazgallı siper

Zinnen

Krenelierung

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmɜːlən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à italien: mergolo

Appartenant à portugais: merlão

Appartenant à espagnol: merlón

In summary

Borrowed from French merlon, from Italian merlone (“merlon”), from merlo (“merlon”) + -one (suffix forming augmentatives). Merlo is derived from Late Latin merulus, merlus, possibly from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (as merlons resemble a row of birds perched on a wall), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- (“black; blackbird”). The English word is cognate with Italian mergolo (“battlement; pinnacle”), Portuguese merlão, Spanish merlón (“merlon”).