dungeon (immured and very austere prison, often underground) · an aggravated form of prison
çekim: çoğul Kerkern · tamlayan Kerkers
eş: Gefängnis
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Latin carcer Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -ārius Latin carcerārius Vulgar Latin *carcāriusbor. Proto-West Germanic *karkārī Old High German karkāri Middle High German kerker German Kerker From Middle High German kerker, kerkære, karkære, from Old High German karkāri, karkari, karkeri, from Proto-West Germanic *karkarī,…
burial vault, crypt, ossuary · vault (a secure, enclosed area)
çekim: çoğul скле́пы · tamlayan скле́па
eş: усыпальница
köken: Borrowed from Ukrainian склеп (sklep, “vault, crypt”), borrowed from Polish sklep (“vault, cellar, crypt”), from Proto-Slavic *sъklepъ. Doublet of склёп (skljop), the inherited East Slavic form.
köken: From Middle Persian gryhcg (grehčag, “pit, prison”). Akin to Parthian [Term?] (“pit”); and related to Middle Persian [script needed] (gristag, “cave, enclosure”).
köken: A reborrowing: borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پودروم (bodrum, podrum, “basement”), either from Koine Greek ὑπόδρομος (hupódromos, literally “under-walkway”) or from Byzantine Greek ἱππόδρομος (hippódromos, “hippodrome (in reference to the dungeons where animals were kept)”) at the Hippodrome. Less likely is the reduction from the Hellenistic ὑπόδρομος (hupódromos, “a place for ships to run into,…
casemate (a bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures) · dungeon (an underground prison or vault)
çekim: çoğul kazamaták
köken: From Italian casamatta, probably also via German Kasematte.
prison, jail · jailbird · traps (barriers at start of a horse race)
çekim: çoğul carcerēs · tamlayan carceris
köken: Derived from Proto-Italic *karkros, from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”) in the sense of "enclosure", and as such a doublet of cancer. Cognate with circus, curvus, crux, crīnis, crispus, English ring. It is not known how the noun shifted to the third declension.