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.
双语例句
1. Moore ascended the scaffold and addressed the executioner.
穆尔走上断头台，和刽子手说话。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He turned towards the scaffold, and stretched forth his arms.
他转向刑台, 向前伸出双臂.
来自英汉文学 - 红字
3. Then, down he sank upon the scaffold!
随后, 他就瘫倒在刑台上了!
来自英汉文学 - 红字
4. Treating each tree as a separate scaffold of a very low - headed tree.
将每棵树作为一个树冠很矮的骨干枝来处理.
来自辞典例句
5. The men on the scaffold turned about and drank to our healths.
