abatonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈæbətən/

名詞

abaton (plural abatons)

1. (Ancient Greece) An enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
   • 1912, James J. Walsh, “Great Physicians in Psychotherapy”, in Psychotherapy‎, New York: D. Appleton and Company:

     There were a series of bathing houses for hydropathy. The abatons, lofty and airy sleeping chambers with their southern sides and open colonnade, are singularly like the open balconies of our tuberculosis sanatoria.

2. (Egyptology) Any one of the sacred cult sites where a body part of the dismembered Osiris was claimed to be buried.
3. (Greek Orthodoxy) An inaccessible or restricted part of a sacred building.

参考

• adytum

Further reading

• adyton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• botana