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解説 Definition
arrondissement は、フランスや一部のフランス語圏で使われる正式な行政区分の「区」や「郡」を指す名詞です。特にパリの番号付きの区を表すときによく使われます。
An official administrative district in France or certain other French-speaking places. The word is especially familiar for the numbered municipal districts of Paris and refers to a legally defined unit rather than merely a neighborhood.
使い方 Usage
使い分け Common distinctions
- neighborhood は住民が認識する地域などを柔軟に指します。arrondissement は正式な行政区画を指します。 Neighborhood can refer flexibly to an area recognized by residents. Arrondissement refers to an official administrative division.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
番号で区切られたパリの地図を思い浮かべましょう。語に含まれるフランス語 rond（丸い）も、地図上の区域を囲む連想の手掛かりにできます。
Picture a map of Paris divided into numbered districts. The French element rond, meaning round, can also serve as a memory cue: imagine drawing a boundary around an area on the map.
例文
They stayed in the fifth arrondissement of Paris.
彼らはパリの第5区に滞在しました。
The museum is located in a central arrondissement.
その美術館は中心部の区にあります。
arrondissement の類義語・関連語
arrondissement の語源・成り立ち Etymology
arrondissement はフランス語で、arrondir「丸くする・整える」+ 名詞語尾 -ment からできた語です。語根 rond はラテン語 rotundus「丸い」に由来し、境界を整えて区切った「行政区」の意味になりました。関連語に round、rotund があります。
Arrondissement was borrowed from French. It is formed from arrondir, “to make round,” “round off,” or “arrange,” and the noun-forming suffix -ment. Arrondir contains rond, “round,” which ultimately goes back to Latin rotundus, also the source of English rotund and related to round. The French noun developed an administrative sense for a territory whose limits had been arranged or defined, including both urban districts and larger subdivisions.
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