brothelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈbɹɔθəl/, /ˈbɹɔðəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɹɒθəl/, (obsolete) /ˈbɹɒðəl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈbɹɑθəl/, /ˈbɹɑðəl/
• 韻: -ɒθəl, -ɒðəl
• ハイフネーション: broth‧el

語源 1

Short for brothel-house (“house of prostitution”), from brothel (“a wretch; scoundrel; lecher; harlot; prostitute”) + house, influenced by bordel. For more on brothel (“a wretch”), see below.

名詞

brothel (plural brothels)

1. A house of prostitution.
   • 1893, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, “Congenital Homo-sexuality”, in Charles Gilbert Chaddock, transl., Psychopathia Sexualis, The F. A. Davis Co., page 245:

     Thus, during the last four years, I have visited brothels about every ten days or two weeks. Only seldom does coitus fail; for I have learned my peculiarities, and in the choice of a prostitute know immediately whether she will excite me or have no effect.

   • 2003, Rob Baum, Female Absence: Women, Theatre, and Other Metaphors, Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 89:

     Only women already existing in the social margins became actresses. For example, celebrated tragedienne Elizabeth Barry was an orphan, Nell Gwynn a barmaid raised in a brothel, Moll Davis the illegitimate daughter of a Colonel. Other actresses were the wives and daughters of male actors, as for example Mary Saunderson (Mrs Betterton) and (in a later period) Mrses Kean, Kemble and Siddons.

同意語

See also Thesaurus:brothel

派生語

派生した語

• → Tamil: பிராத்தல் (pirāttal)

参考

• escort agency
• red-light district
• prostitute

語源 2

From 中期英語 brothel, brodel, brodelle, brethel (“a wretch, a depraved man or woman”) (compare also 中期英語 bretheling (“a wretch”)), apparently from an unrecorded 古期英語 *brēoþel (“degenerative, corruptive”), related to 古期英語 ābrēoþan (“to unsettle, degrade, ruin, frustrate, degenerate, deteriorate, fall away”); 古期英語 ābroþen (“degenerate, base, trifling”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *breuþaną (“to fall apart; crumble”).

The expected modern English form would be *broddle (see fiddle); the failure of the change from /ðl/ to /dl/ may be because of the intervening schwa in the word's uninflected forms, influence from the verb, or most likely, a dialectal development (compare stathel besides staddle).

名詞

brothel (plural brothels)

1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (obsolete) A wretch; a depraved or lewd person.

アナグラム

• Holbert, blother