eyrie

• n. （鹰等的）巢；高山住屋（或城堡）

来自aerie的拼写变体。

eyrie

eyrie: [16] Latin ager (source of English agriculture and related to English acre) meant ‘field’, or more broadly ‘piece of land’. In postclassical times this extended via ‘native land’ to ‘lair of a wild animal, particularly a bird of prey’, the meaning of its Old French descendant aire. The Old French form was taken back into medieval Latin as aeria, the immediate source of the English word.
=> acre, agriculture

eyrie

see aerie.

1. the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)

2. any habitation at a high altitude