different between fortified vs donjon

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??t?fa?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??t?fa?d/
• Hyphenation: for?ti?fied

Verb

fortified

1. simple past tense and past participle of fortify

Synonyms

• castellate, castellated, incastled, encastled, incastellated, encastellated

Translations

Noun

fortified (plural fortifieds)

1. A fortified wine.
   • 2012, Barbara Santich, Bold Palates: Australia's Gastronomic Heritage (page 136)

     In 1969 output of table wines exceeded that of fortifieds for the first time, and by 1973 more than twice as much table wine as fortified was being produced.

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