- 1高盧（古羅馬時代的西歐地區，大致含今法國一帶）
Gaul is the name the Romans used for a large part of western Europe in their time. It covered what we now call France, Belgium, the southern Netherlands, southwest Germany, and a piece of northern Italy. It is a history word, not a name on today’s map. A person from that land is a Gaul; their language is called Gaulish. Students often hear it with Julius Caesar, who fought wars there and wrote about them. Though actually, Gaul was bigger and more mixed than “old France”: many Celtic peoples lived there, and Rome did not treat it as one neat country. The English name Gaul came through French Gaule, from a Frankish idea of “the land of the / Romans,” used to stand for the Latin name Gallia. The word for the people, a Gaul, comes from Latin Gallus. Those two paths are probably not the same family, even though they meet in English as one place and its people.
組成The place-name came into English from French Gaule, from a Frankish word for the land of the “foreigners” or Romans, used for Latin Gallia. The word for a person, a Gaul, is from Latin Gallus; the spelling later followed the place-name.
同家族的字
- Gaulishthe language, and the adjective, of Gaul
- Gallicthe usual adjective meaning “of Gaul” (from Latin Gallus)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Gaulname詞源 1/ɡɔːl/
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historicalA historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine.
Gaulnoun詞源 2
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A native or inhabitant of the historical region of Gaul, or poetically the modern nation of France.
- […] Gauls used the suffix -acus, Etruscans -nas or -na, Umbrians -enus, -ienus.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。