cathedral

• 大聖堂

cata-、下。-司教の教会、聖具室、椅子の原型を指す。

cathedral

cathedral: [13] Cathedral is a shortening of cathedral church, which was originally the ‘church housing the bishop’s throne’. For ultimately cathedral comes from Greek kathédrā (source also of English chair), a compound noun meaning ‘seat’, formed from katá- ‘down’ and *hed- ‘sit’. The adjectival form was created in late Latin as cathedrālis, and reached English via Old French. The notion of the bishop’s authority residing in his throne recurs in see, which comes from Latin sēdem ‘seat’, a relative of English sit.
=> chair

cathedral (n.)

1580s, "church of a bishop," from phrase cathedral church (c. 1300), partially translating Late Latin ecclesia cathedralis "church of a bishop's seat," from Latin cathedra "an easy chair (principally used by ladies)," also metonymically, as in cathedrae molles "luxurious women;" also "a professor's chair;" from Greek kathedra "seat, bench," from kata "down" (see cata-) + hedra "seat, base, chair, face of a geometric solid," from PIE root *sed- (1) "to sit" (see sedentary).

It was born an adjective, and attempts to cobble further adjectivization onto it in 17c. yielded cathedraical (1670s), cathedratic (1660s), cathedratical (1660s), after which the effort seems to have been given up.

1. As Wren 's epitaph famously declares，the cathedral itself is his monument.

周知のように、レインの墓碑銘には、大聖堂自体が彼の記念碑であると書かれている。

2.The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.

14世紀の大聖堂は瓦礫の山になった。

3.The cathedral was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1136 AD.

大聖堂は西暦1136年の大火で焼失した。

4.His funeral will be on Thursday at Blackburn Cathedral .

彼の葬儀は木曜日にブラックバーン大聖堂で行われる。

5.Notre-Dame Cathedral in Senlis is less famous than its namesake in Paris.

サンリスの聖母院はパリと同じ名前の聖母院で有名ではありません。