chancel的词源

英文词源

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.

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。

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