cymatiumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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名詞

cymatium (plural cymatiums or cymatia)

1. (architecture) A molding on the cornice, above the corona, often having a wavelike form (cyma).
   • 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia‎, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:

     The cornice only is carried around the room at the ceiling, and in the staircase hall only the cymatium and corona of the cornice; but over the archway, supported by a colonnade of four fluted round columns, a complete entablature with nicely worked classic detail is employed and given added emphasis by several inches' projection into the reception hall.

関連する語

• cyma

Further reading

• cymatium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源

From Ancient Greek κυμάτιον (kumátion, “small wave”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kyːˈma.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [t͡ʃiˈmat.t͡si.um]

名詞

cȳmatium n (genitive cȳmatiī or cȳmatī); second declension

1. (architecture) The volute of an Ionic column
2. (architecture) A channel, a waved molding, an ogee

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生した語

• French: cimaise
• Italian: cimasa

参照

• “cymatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cymatium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin