词族 · chancel
词形变化
中文词源
chancel 祭坛
来自拉丁词cancellus, 斜栅，词源同cancel, chancery. 原指教堂用斜栅围起来的圣地。
英语词源
- chancel (n.)
- c. 1300, "part of the church around the altar," from Old French chancel, from Late Latin cancellus "lattice," from Latin cancelli (plural) "grating, bars" (see cancel); sense extended in Late Latin from the lattice-work that separated the choir from the nave in a church to the space itself.
权威例句
- 1. Just give me the chancel right now the news is dead.
- 只要给我这个机会就成!
- 2. The part of the chancel a cruciform church that is occupied by this company of singers.
- 教堂里唱诗班所占的席位;是圣台中位于圣坛和中央中间的那一部分.