crenel

English

An illustration of a battlement or crenellation. The merlons are the upright projecting parts, and the portions in between them are the crenels or embrasures. Loopholes are present in the merlons depicted.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛnəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnəl

Noun

crenel (plural crenels or creneaux)

1. 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

• crenellate
• crenelled

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

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)

1. alternative form of kernel

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French créneau.

Noun

crenel n (plural creneluri)

1. crenel

Declension

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