dungeon

• n. 地牢，土牢

可能來自拉丁語dominus, 城堡領主，詞源同domain. 由該詞引申詞義城堡地牢，拚寫比較同源詞danger. 或來自PIE*dhengh, 覆蓋，引申詞義隱蔽的地牢或土牢。

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.

1. John had Maude and her son cast into a dungeon.

約翰讓人將莫德和她的兒子關進了地牢。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Throw him into the dungeon and leave him there.

把他扔進地牢,讓他呆在那兒.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. I could now see more clearly the nature of the dungeon.

現在我能更清楚地看清地牢的情況.

來自辭典例句

4. Today's asylum might be the dungeon of tomorrow.

今天的庇護所可能會變成明天的地牢.

來自辭典例句

5. They were driven into a dark dungeon.

他們被人驅趕進入一個黑暗的地牢.

來自辭典例句