donjon
English
Etymology
A variant of dungeon remodelled on its etymon, Old French donjon.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɒn.d͡ʒən/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈdɑn.d͡ʒən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈdɔn.d͡ʒən/
Noun
donjon (plural donjons)
- The fortified tower and main residence of a motte or early castle; a keep.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 106:
- It was a fortress of no great size, consisting of a donjon, or large and high square tower, surrounded by buildings of inferior height, which were encircled by an inner court-yard.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 132:
- […] the prison fortress called Qomr, a mound of yellowish brick rising up from the left back of the turbid river, in whose donjon by long tradition the warlord was obliged to lay his head.
Related terms
Translations
fortified tower — see keep
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔnˈʒɔn/, [dɔ̃ˈʒɔ̃], [dɔnˈʒɔn]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: don‧jon
- Rhymes: -ɔn
Synonyms
French
Etymology
From Old French donjon, from Vulgar Latin *dominiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔ̃.ʒɔ̃/
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References
- “donjon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dominiōnem. Compare Old Occitan domnhon.
Pronunciation
- (classical) IPA(key): /dunˈd͡ʒun/
Noun
donjon oblique singular, m (oblique plural donjons, nominative singular donjons, nominative plural donjon)
- keep, donjon
- 12th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:
- Li chiens gardoit par le donjon / Qar mis estoit a grant freor / Quant il ne voiet son seignor.
- The dog looked through the keep, for he felt a great terror when he couldn't see his master.
Descendants
References
Romanian
Declension
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