omphalos

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒmfəlɒs/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world.
  2. The theological proposition that the world was created with certain indicia of a history which had not actually occurred (such as the humans who had never been connected to umbilical cords being created with navels).
  3. The navel.
  4. A raised central point; a boss.
  5. The center or hub.
    — —Rather bleak in wintertime, I should say. Martello you call it? —Billy Pitt had them built, Buck Mulligan said, when the French were on the sea. But ours is the omphalos.

词形变化

omphaloi plural

词汇关系

衍生词
hepatomphalocelemphalos hepatomphalos

词源

From Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel”). Doublet of navel.
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