scaffold: [14] Historically, scaffold and catafalque [17] ‘coffin-stand’ are virtually the same word. Catafalque comes via French catafalque and Italian catafalco from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum, a word of uncertain origin. Combination with the prefix ex- produced *excatafalcum, which passed into English via Old French eschaffaut and Anglo-Norman *scaffaut.
The word originally denoted any sort of platform, and did not narrow down to ‘platform for executions’ until the 16th century. The derivative scaffolding, a term which originally alluded to the platforms set up around a building rather than to poles supporting them, also dates from the 14th century. => catafalque
scaffold (n.)
mid-14c., "wooden framework used in building, etc., temporary structure for workmen to make walls," a shortening of an Old North French variant of Old French eschafaut "scaffold" (Modern French échafaud), probably altered (by influence of eschace "a prop, support") from chaffaut, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum (see catafalque). Meaning "platform for a hanging" is from 1550s. Dutch schavot, German Schafott, Danish skafot are from French. As a verb from 1540s.
雙語例句
1. Moore ascended the scaffold and addressed the executioner.
穆爾走上斷頭臺，和劊子手說話。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He turned towards the scaffold, and stretched forth his arms.
他轉向刑臺, 向前伸出雙臂.
來自英漢文學 - 紅字
3. Then, down he sank upon the scaffold!
隨后, 他就癱倒在刑臺上了!
來自英漢文學 - 紅字
4. Treating each tree as a separate scaffold of a very low - headed tree.
將每棵樹作為一個樹冠很矮的骨干枝來處理.
來自辭典例句
5. The men on the scaffold turned about and drank to our healths.