merlon

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

ameia

merlão

Sinônimos

battlement

crenellation

embattlement

castellation

Traduções

Zinne

merlo

kanteel

merlón

merlet

merlon

almena

merlatura

تزويد بفتحات نار

mazgallı siper

Zinnen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈmɜːlən/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Cognato com italiano: mergolo

Cognato com português: merlão

Cognato com espanhol: 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”).