camino

Japanese: camino
camino

… [Hiroyuki Suzuki]
[Western Chimneys]
In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, there is a man who climbs a chimney to see the great Caesar, but this is a misunderstanding on Shakespeare's part. In Greek and Roman times, the only way to direct smoke from a fire outside was to make a hole in the roof. A chimney is called a chimney in English, cheminée in French, and camino in Italian, all of which are derived from the Latin caminus, meaning "furnace," and in the old days when there were no chimneys, it was used to mean a hearth in all countries. Even today, the French word cheminée can mean both hearth and chimney.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "camino" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…【鈴木 博之】
[西洋の煙突]
 シェークスピアの《ジュリアス・シーザー》に,偉大なシーザーを見るために煙突に登ったという男が出てくるが,これはシェークスピアの思い違いで,ギリシアやローマの時代には,室内のたき火の煙を戸外に導く方法としては屋根に穴をあけておくだけであった。煙突を英語ではチムニーchimney,フランス語ではシュミネcheminée,イタリア語ではカミーノcaminoと呼んでいるが,いずれもラテン語の〈かまど〉を意味するカミヌスcaminusが語源で,煙突のなかった昔はどの国でも炉の意味に使われていた。現在もフランス語のシュミネは炉と煙突と両方の意味をもっている。…

※「camino」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Caminus

>>:  Camford

Recommend

Kanki - Kanki

〘noun〙 To be criticized by a superior. When a vass...

Tiger - Tiger

A mammal of the Felidae family in the carnivora or...

Miharada ruins - Miharadaishi

Located in Miharada, Akagi Village, Seta District,...

Scrophularia kakudensis (English spelling) Scrophulariakakudensis

… [Kei Yamazaki]. … *Some of the terminology that...

disaccommodation

…Ferrite is also used as a high-permeability mate...

Nobunaga in his younger days

A play in three acts and four scenes. Written by D...

Juuji Tanabe

1884-1972 An English literature scholar and mount...

Anatolian dialect - Anatolian dialect

…(1) Danube dialect: found in Adrianople (now Edi...

Kismayu (English spelling)

Also known as Chisimaio. A port city in southern S...

Bohr magneton

Also called the Bohr magneton. It is the basic un...

animate class

...The expression of grammatical relations throug...

Metal Carbonyl - Metal Carbonyl

A group of complexes classified as non-Werner com...

HDD - HDD

A magnetic disk device that integrates a hard dis...

Cameron, GG - Cameron

...The investigation of the inaccessible inscript...

Izumiya Kanjuro - Izumiya Kanjuro

…They always valued their customers, and always t...