sarcophagus

FREQ #21898

n. 石棺

发音

UK /sɑːˈkɒfəɡəs/
其它
US /sɑɹˈkɑfəɡəs/

词形变化

sarcophagi 复数 sarcophagi sarcophaguses sarcophagusses sarcophaguses 复数 sarcophagusses 复数 sarcophagused sarcophaguses 三单 sarcophagusing sarcophagusing 现在分词 sarcophagused 过去式 sarcophagused 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A type of wine cooler (“a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled”) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).

    历史 引申义
  2. 2.

    A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

    历史
  3. 3.

    A stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.

    石棺

  4. 4.

    The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

    石棺

    非正式 引申义
v.
  1. 1.

    To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

coffin casket

词源

The noun is borrowed from Latin sarcophagus (“grave; sarcophagus; flesh-eating, carnivorous”), from Ancient Greek σᾰρκοφᾰ́γος (sărkophắgos, “sarcophagus; flesh-eating, carnivorous”) (so named from λῐ́θος σᾰρκοφᾰ́γος (lĭ́thos sărkophắgos, literally “flesh-eating stone”) a type of limestone found at Assos in Troas (now Behramkale, Turkey) thought to consume the flesh of corpses, and thus used to make coffins), from σαρκός (sarkós) (the genitive form of σάρξ (sárx, “flesh; body”), from Proto-Indo-European *twerḱ- (“to carve; to cut off, trim”)) + -φάγος (-phágos, suffix meaning ‘eater (of); eating’) (from ἔφαγον (éphagon, “to devour, eat”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to allot, distribute; to divide”)). The plural form sarcophagi is borrowed from Latin sarcophagī. The verb is derived from the noun.

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