crenel

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛnəl/

Noun

crenel (plural crenels or creneaux)

The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
Alternative form: crenelle

Coordinate term: loophole

Near-synonym: embrasure (sometimes hypernymous technically)
- 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 35:
  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, […]

Derived terms

Translations

space between merlons

Bulgarian: амбразура (bg) f (ambrazura)
Catalan: merlet (ca) m
Esperanto: krenelo, murdento
Finnish: ampuma-aukko (fi)
French: créneau (fr) m
German: Zinnenfenster n, Zinnenscharte f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: krenelering m or f
Polish: miedza (pl) f
Portuguese: ameia (pt) f
Romanian: crenel (ro) n
Swedish: skottglugg c

References

^ From Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1858), “CRÉNEAU”, in Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XI^e au XVI^e siècle [Systematic Dictionary of French Architecture from the 9th to 16th Centuries], volumes IV (Construction–Cyborium), Paris: B. Bance, […], →OCLC, figure 15, page 387.

Old French

Noun

crenel oblique singular, 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)

alternative form of kernel

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French créneau.

Noun

crenel n (plural creneluri)

crenel

Declension

Declension of **crenel**
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	crenel	crenelul	creneluri	crenelurile
genitive-dative	crenel	crenelului	creneluri	crenelurilor
vocative	crenelule		crenelurilor

[n1-1] From Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1858), “CRÉNEAU”, in Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XI^e au XVI^e siècle [Systematic Dictionary of French Architecture from the 9th to 16th Centuries], volumes IV (Construction–Cyborium), Paris: B. Bance, […], →OCLC, figure 15, page 387.