acheiropoieton

发音

UK /eɪˈkaɪɹəʊpɔɪˌiːtən/
其它

词形变化

acheiropoieta 复数 acheiropoieta

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A religion icon (chiefly of Christ or the Virgin Mary) believed not to have been created by human hands; a miraculous image.

    The special nature of Orthodox icons was emphasized by the growth of a notion, much encouraged by these bitter disputes, that there was one quite exceptional class of art: acheiropoieta, images of Jesus not made by human hands, the archetype of which was the now-mysterious Mandylion given by Christ himself to King Abgar of Edessa […].

词源

From Byzantine Greek ἀχειροποίητον (akheiropoíēton), from ἀ- (a-, “a-, the alpha privative”) + χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ποιεῖν (poieîn, “to make”).

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