different between crenel vs crenellation

English

Alternative forms

• crenelle

Etymology

From Old French crenel ( > modern French créneau), diminutive of cren (“notch”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??n?l/

Noun

crenel (plural crenels or creneaux)

1. The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 44:

     They would wake Lord Bolton and search Harrenhal from crenel to cellar, and when they did they would find the map and the dagger missing […].

Translations

Old French

Noun

crenel m (oblique plural creneaus or creneax or creniaus or creniax or crenels, nominative singular creneaus or creneax or creniaus or creniax or crenels, nominative plural crenel)

1. Alternative form of kernel

English

Etymology

From crenellate +? -ion (suffix indicating an action or process, or its result). Crenellate is derived from French créneler (“to form the shape of a crenel, crenellate”), from Old French crenel (“crenel, embrasure”) (modern French créneau) (from Latin *cr?nella, diminutive of cr?na (“incision; notch”); compare Old French cren (“a notch”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??n?l?e???n/, /?k??n??le???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??n??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: cre?nel?lat?ion

Noun

crenellation (countable and uncountable, plural crenellations)

1. A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
2. The act of crenellating; adding a top row that looks like the top of a medieval castle.

Alternative forms

• crenelation

Hypernyms

• battlement

Related terms

• crenel
• crenellate
• licence to crenellate

Translations

References

Further reading

• crenellation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• centrolineal