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• (英国発音) IPA: /æps/
• 韻: -æps
• Homophone: apps

語源 1

From Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch, vault”), from ἅπτω (háptō, “to bind, join”).

名詞

apse (plural apses or apsides)

1. (architecture) The rounded east end of a church that contains or is behind the altar.

   Synonyms: apsis, apside

   Holonyms: church, cathedral

   Meronyms: ambulatory, apse chapels

   Near-synonyms: chancel, presbytery, sanctuary (all broadly synonymous)

   Our private tour of the cathedral even allowed us to walk through the apse, which most tours don't.

   • 1960, Leo Steinberg, San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane: A Study in Multiple Form and Architectural Symbolism:

     The draughtsman could not have held the sheet with the apse at the tip, for then, instead of shading away from the edge, most of his hatched lines would begin in the uncharted middle ground of a shadeable area, to strike against the contour; […]

   1. (strictest sense) The interior portion of this section of the church building, excluding the ambulatory and any apse chapels.

      Comeronyms: ambulatory, apse chapels

2. A semicircular projection from any building that is similar to a church's apse.

   The college has an apse that once held a small chapel.

3. The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.

   Coordinate term: see (his seat in the sense of his episcopal office)

4. A reliquary: a case in which the relics of saints are kept.
5. (astronomy) Obsolete form of apsis (“the nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit”).

   Synonyms: apsis, apside

派生語

語源 2

名詞

apse (plural apses)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) An aspen tree.

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