antiphon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A devotional chant; a piece of music sung responsively.
    — Father Vaillant came back in his vestments, with his pyx and basin of holy water, and began sprinkling the bed and the watchers, repeating the antiphon, Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor.
  2. A response or reply.
    — The Clown […] says: ‘And so we wept; and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed’; to which his father, the Shepherd, adds the comfortable antiphon, ‘We may live, son, to shed many more.’

词形变化

antiphons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antiphonal antiphonary antiphone antiphoner antiphonic antiphonical antiphony O Antiphon

词源

From French antiphone or Medieval Latin antiphōna, from Ancient Greek ἀντίφωνα (antíphōna, “responses, musical accords”), neuter plural substantive of ἀντίφωνος (antíphōnos, “concordant”) from ἀντί (antí, “in return”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). Doublet of anthem.
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