abaton

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
    — There were a series of bathing houses for hydropathy. The abatons, lofty and airy sleeping chambers with their southern sides and open colonnade, are singularly like the open balconies of our tuberculosis sanatoria.
  2. Any one of the sacred cult sites where a body part of the dismembered Osiris was claimed to be buried.
  3. An inaccessible or restricted part of a sacred building.

词形变化

abatons plural

词汇关系

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adytum

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄβατον (ábaton), nominalized neuter form of ἄβατος (ábatos, “inaccessible”).
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