† montjoyn.

Forms: 1600s montjoy, 1700s mont-joye.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French montjoie.

Etymology: < Middle French, French montjoie observation point near a town, cairn to mark the way (c1200 in Old French as monjoie ; 1135 as a war cry of Christian knights, c1100 as munjoie in this sense) < mont mount n.¹ + joie joy n., after post-classical Latin Mons Gaudii (late 10th cent.), the name given by pilgrims to Rama, a mountain north-west of Jerusalem (Hebrew rāmāh, lit. ‘height’; one of a number of places with this name mentioned in the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, e.g. Judges 19:13), which was later applied to various elevations from which the holy city could be seen, and subsequently to any sort of look-out.

Obsolete. rare.

A cairn or similar mound; spec. a cairn erected by pilgrims to hold a cross.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > cairn

cairn1535

warlock1584

montjoy1653

raise1695

pike1751

obo1874

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxxiii. 218 Finally they found a montjoy or heap of ordure and filth.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mont-joye, a Name by which they call Heaps of Stones, laid together by Pilgrims, in which they stick Crosses [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	montjoy
释义	† montjoyn. Forms: 1600s montjoy, 1700s mont-joye. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French montjoie. Etymology: < Middle French, French montjoie observation point near a town, cairn to mark the way (c1200 in Old French as monjoie ; 1135 as a war cry of Christian knights, c1100 as munjoie in this sense) < mont mount n.¹ + joie joy n., after post-classical Latin Mons Gaudii (late 10th cent.), the name given by pilgrims to Rama, a mountain north-west of Jerusalem (Hebrew rāmāh, lit. ‘height’; one of a number of places with this name mentioned in the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, e.g. Judges 19:13), which was later applied to various elevations from which the holy city could be seen, and subsequently to any sort of look-out. Obsolete. rare. A cairn or similar mound; spec. a cairn erected by pilgrims to hold a cross. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > cairn cairn1535 warlock1584 montjoy1653 raise1695 pike1751 obo1874 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxxiii. 218 Finally they found a montjoy or heap of ordure and filth. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mont-joye, a Name by which they call Heaps of Stones, laid together by Pilgrims, in which they stick Crosses [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1653
随便看	autocrat autocrat of all the russias autocratic autocratical autocratically autocratism autocrator autocratoric autocratorical autocratress autocratress of all the russias autocratrice autocratrix autocrats autocratship autocrime autocrine autocrine motility factor autocritical autocriticism autocritique autocross autocrosses autoctony autocue