apseの意味・使い方・発音

apse

英 [æps] 美 [æps]

後陣

語源は不明。

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 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, ‘arch’ 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 .: 北側の半円床の間に似た石がもう一つある.

2.In the left side，beginning with the apse ，Argentina，Brasil，Chile and Mexico are represented.: は左側にあり、半円床の間からアルゼンチン、ブラジル、チリ、メキシコのマークがある。

3.Quite by chance，an apse and some mosaic fragments were brought to light in 1891.: 1891年に半円床の間の残片が発見された。

4.Christian churches have usually been oriented with the apse or altar at the eastern end.: キリスト教の教会は東端の裏堂や聖壇の向きに置かれることが多い。

5.The chapel is just the frosted glass walls and the frescoes on the dome and apse .: これにより、ドームと裏庭の壁画にさらに注目してみましょう。