attic的词源

英文词源

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attic: [18] In classical architecture, an Attic order was a pilaster, or square column (the naḿe comes from Attica, a region of ancient Greece of which Athens was the capital). This type of column was often used in a relatively low storey placed above the much higher main façade of a building, which hence became known in the 18th century as an attic storey. It was a short step to applying the word attic itself to an ‘upper storey’; the first record of it in this sense comes in Byron’s Beppo 1817: ‘His wife would mount, at times, her highest attic’.
Attic (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1590s, "pertaining to Attica," from Latin Atticus, from Greek Attikos "Athenian, of Attica," the region around Athens (see Attica). Attested from 1560s as an architectural term for a type of column base.
attic (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"top story under the roof of a house," 1855, shortened from attic storey (1724). The term Attic order in classical architecture meant a small, square decorative column of the type often used in a low story above a building's main facade, a feature associated with the region around Athens (see Attic). The word then was applied by architects to "a low decorative facade above the main story of a building" (1690s in English) to convey a classical heritage where none exists, and it came to mean the space enclosed by such a structure. The modern use is via French attique. "An attic is upright, a garret is in a sloping roof" [Weekley].

中文词源

attic(阿提卡式):以独特建筑风格和海盐闻名的古希腊阿提卡地区

attic现指屋顶下的“小阁楼”,往往不被人重视。然而在古代建筑史上,attic代表的可是一种非常著名的风格。attic本是Attica(阿提卡,希腊地名)的形容词,而阿提卡就是雅典所在的地区。雅典古建筑最引人注目的是它的柱子的独特风格,既典雅,又恢宏。这种雅典特有的风格就是attic(阿提卡式)。古代雅典人喜欢在房屋正面的檐口或柱顶盘上,用阿提卡式的柱子搭起一层装饰性矮墙,这一层被称为“attic storey”(阿提卡层)。阁楼attic其实就是attic storey的缩写。

阿提卡盛产海盐,相传阿提卡的盐比希腊其他地方的盐精细有味,深受欢迎。阿提卡人机智风趣,善于说俏皮话,以幽雅的诙谐著称于世。

古罗马著名的作家和演说家西塞罗在其作品中探讨演讲艺术中的诙谐问题时,特别提到以口齿锋利著称的阿提卡人。他说,妙语应当含有“盐味”,象“阿提卡的盐”(attic salt)那样有味。因此,attic salt也就成了一个常用的习语。

attic: ['tk]n.阁楼,顶楼 adj.雅典风格的,阿提卡式

atticism:['t,szm]典雅的用语,雅典式的用语,对雅典的崇敬

attic salt:高尚的智趣;文雅的机智

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版:attic 词源,attic 含义。

attic:阁楼

发音释义:['ætɪk] n. 阁楼adj.雅典的

词源解释:attic←希腊语Attikos(阿提卡的)

背景知识:attic本是Attica(阿提卡,希腊地名)的形容词,而阿提卡就是雅典所在的地区。雅典古建筑最引人注目的是它的柱子的独特风格,既典雅,又恢宏。这种雅典特有的风格就是attic(阿提卡式)。古代雅典人喜欢在房屋正面的檐口或柱顶盘上,用阿提卡式的柱子搭起一层装饰性矮墙,这一层被称为“attic storey”(阿提卡层)。阁楼attic其实就是attic storey的缩写。

阿提卡盛产海盐,相传阿提卡的盐比希腊其他地方的盐精细有味,深受欢迎。阿提卡人机智风趣,善于说俏皮话,以幽雅的诙谐著称于世。古罗马著名的作家和演说家西塞罗在其作品中探讨演讲艺术中的诙谐问题时,特别提到以口齿锋利著称的阿提卡人。他说,妙语应当含有“盐味”,象“阿提卡的盐”(attic salt)那样有味。因此,attic salt也就成了一个常用的习语,表示“妙语”。

衍生词:atticism(文雅的言辞)

attic:阁楼

来自Attic, 雅典别称,指该地一种建筑风格。

attic:顶楼,阁楼

该词在首字母大写时是Attica(古希腊雅典城邦一地区)的形容词形式,有“雅典式的”、“简朴典雅的”等义;在首字母小写时则是个名词,意指“顶楼”,“阁楼”或“屋顶室”。乍一看,这两者在语义上似乎没有多大联系,但实际上作名词用的attic 一词是来自作形容词的Attic,而Attic则源于希腊语Attikos ‘relating to Attica’,从法语attique演变而来。

在一些Attic式的古典建筑物的最顶层,为了避免墙面的单调,常以墙端壁柱(pilaster)作为装饰,这一建筑特点称为Attic order(雅典的列柱式)。 17至18世纪,在英国建筑中装饰性壁柱极为盛行,建筑物的顶楼是仿Attic式造的,所以顶楼被称作Attic storey。以后Atric的首字母变为小写,该短语也缩略为attic。

attic:顶楼

attic现指屋顶下的“小阁楼”,往往被人们弃之不用,或用来存放物品、养鸽子等。然而在古代,这可是最迷人的住处。这是个古希腊词,原义是“雅典的”、“具有雅典风格的”,而雅典的建筑以其对称、大方、古雅、精美闻名于世。因此,古时的attic该是非常雅致的房间。18世纪的英国建筑,多采取古雅典式,顶楼精美,饰有半露的。