different between donjon vs citadel

English

Etymology

From Old French donjon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?nd??n/

Noun

donjon (plural donjons)

1. The fortified tower of a motte or early castle; a keep.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 132:

     [...] the prison fortress called Qomr, a mound of yellowish brick rising up from the left back of the turbid river, in whose donjon by long tradition the warlord was obliged to lay his head.

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     It was a fortress of no great size, consisting of a donjon, or large and high square tower, surrounded by buildings of inferior height, which were encircled by an inner court-yard.

Translations

Related terms

• dungeon

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French donjon, from Old French donjon, from Latin dungi?, from Frankish *dungij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?n???n/, [d??????], [d?n???n]
• Hyphenation: don?jon
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

donjon m (plural donjons, diminutive donjonnetje n)

1. donjon, keep

Synonyms

• slottoren

French

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French donjon, dongon (“castle keep”), from Frankish *dungjo, *dunjon- (“dungeon, bower, underground cellar”), from Proto-Germanic *dungij?, *dung? (“enclosed space, vault, bower, treasury”).

Alternate etymology traces Old French donjon to Vulgar Latin *dominio, *dominionem (“lord's castle”), from Latin dominius, and possibly influenced by the above Germanic term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??.???/

Noun

donjon m (plural donjons)

1. donjon, keep

Further reading

• “donjon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

donjon m (oblique plural donjons, nominative singular donjons, nominative plural donjon)

1. Alternative form of donjun

Romanian

Etymology

From French donjon

Noun

donjon n (plural donjoane)

1. donjon

Declension

English

Etymology

From French citadelle, from Italian cittadella, diminutive of città (“city”), from Latin c?vit?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?t?d?l/, /?s?t?d?l/

Noun

citadel (plural citadels)

1. A strong fortress that sits high above a city.
2. (sometimes figuratively) A stronghold or fortified place.
   • 1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England (page 269)

     Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea […]

3. An armoured portion of a warship, housing important equipment.
   • 2000, Lincoln P. Paine, Warships of the World to 1900

     Twenty-two of these — eleven per broadside — were on the main deck within a central citadel, essentially an armor-protected box in the middle of the ship. Also within the citadel were four 110-pdr. breech-loaders.

4. A Salvation Army meeting place.

Translations

Anagrams

• dactile, deltaic, dialect, edictal, lactide

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowe from Middle French citadelle, from Italian cittadella, diminutive of città (“city”), from Latin c?vit?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si.ta??d?l/
• Hyphenation: ci?ta?del
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

citadel f (plural citadellen or citadels, diminutive citadelletje n)

1. citadel

Anagrams

• dialect