cottageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Late 中期英語, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, also compare Dutch and English hut.

Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of 古期英語 cot of same Proto-Germanic origin.

Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑt.ɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈkɑɾ.ɪd͡ʒ]
• • (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈkɑt.əd͡ʒ/, [ˈkɑɾ.əd͡ʒ]
• ハイフネーション: cot‧tage
• 韻: -ɒtɪdʒ

名詞

cottage (plural cottages)

1. A small house.

   Synonyms: cot, hut

   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Palace of Art”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 154:

     So when four years were wholly finished, / She threw her royal robes away. / “Make me a cottage in the vale,” she said, / “Where I may mourn and pray.

2. A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.

   Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”

3. (UK, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

4. (Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.

   Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, (US) tea house

派生語

関連する語

• cosset
• cot
• coterie

派生した語

• → French: cottage

動詞

cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)

1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
2. (intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

参照

Further reading

• cottage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eric Partridge (2005), “cottage”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 486.