citadel的词源
英文词源
- citadel
- citadel: see city
- citadel (n.)
- 1580s, "fortress commanding a city," from Middle French citadelle (15c.), from Italian cittadella, diminutive of Old Italian cittade "city" (Modern Italian citta), from Latin civitatem (nominative civitas; also source of Portuguese citadella, Spanish ciuadela; see city).
中文词源
词源同city,城市,城堡。
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意大利和法国等很多城市中都有citadel,这是城市遭到侵略时贵族藏身的最后一道防线,多有堡垒,是city这个单词的指小形式,即little city,因为它算是“城中之城”。