apse

英 [?ps] 美[?ps]

暢通詞匯

apse （教堂的）半圓形壁龕

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apse: apse: [19] Apse ‘vaulted recess in a church’ is an anglicization of Latin apsis. This was a borrowing of Greek apsís or hapsís, which meant literally ‘a(chǎn) fastening together’ (it was derived from the verb háptein ‘join’). The notion that underlies its application to a vaulted space seems to be the joining together of arcs to form a circle; an early Greek use was as a ‘felloe’, part of the rim of a wheel, and this later came to mean, by extension, the wheel itself.

Further metaphoricization led to the sense ‘orbit’, and, more semicircularly, ‘a(chǎn)rch’ or ‘vault’. The Latin/Greek form apsis itself was borrowed into English at the beginning of the 17th century, and remains in use as a technical term in astronomy, ‘extreme point of an orbit’.
apse (n.): "semicircular extension at the end of a church," 1846, from Latin apsis "an arch, a vault," from Greek hapsis (Ionic apsis) "loop, arch," originally "a fastening, felloe of a wheel," from haptein "fasten together," which is of unknown origin. The original sense in Greek seems to have been the joining of the arcs to form a circle, especially in making a wheel. The architectural term is earlier attested in English in the Latin form (1706).

1. A similar rocky protrusion was noticed in the north apse.: 在北側(cè)半圓壁龕另有一塊相似的石頭.

2. In the left side, beginning with the apse, Argentina, Brasil, Chile and Mexico are represented.: 在左側(cè), 從半圓壁龕起, 有阿根廷、巴西、智利和墨西哥的標(biāo)志.

3. Quite by chance , an apse and some mosaic fragments were brought to light in 1891.: 1891年有些半圓壁龕的殘片被發(fā)現(xiàn).

4. Christian churches have usually been oriented with the apse or altar at the eastern end.: 基督教的教堂常以放在東端的后堂或圣壇朝向.

5. The chapel is just the frosted glass walls and the frescoes on the dome and apse.: 這就讓我們更加注意圓頂和后殿的壁畫.