dungeon

英 ['dʌn(d)ʒ(ə)n] 美 ['dʌndʒən]

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dungeon 地牢

可能来自拉丁语dominus, 城堡领主，词源同domain. 由该词引申词义城堡地牢，拼写比较同源词danger. 或来自PIE*dhengh, 覆盖，引申词义隐蔽的地牢或土牢。

dungeon: dungeon: [14] In common with a wide range of other English words, including danger, demesne, dominion, domino, and don, dungeon comes ultimately from Latin dominus ‘lord, master’. Derived from this was dominium ‘property’ (source of English dominion), which in postclassical times became dominiō or domniō, meaning ‘lord’s tower’.

In Old French this became donjon, the term for a ‘castle keep’, and eventually, by extension, a ‘secure (underground) cell’. English acquired the package in the 14th century, but in common usage has retained only the latter sense, in the adapted Middle English spelling (although the original Old French form remains in use as a technical term for a ‘castle keep’).
=> dame, danger, demesne, dominion, dominate
dungeon (n.): c. 1300, "great tower of a castle," from Old French donjon "great tower of a castle" (12c.), from Gallo-Roman *dominionem, from Late Latin dominium, from Latin dominus "master" (of the castle; see domain). Sense of "castle keep" led to "strong (underground) cell" in English early 14c. The original sense went with the variant donjon.

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3. I could now see more clearly the nature of the dungeon.: 现在我能更清楚地看清地牢的情况.