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(Englisch)

1. A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
2. The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
3. A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
4. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of apsis (“the nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit”).

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/æps/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch, vault”), from ἅπτω (háptō, “I bind, join”).

Konzepte

Apsis

Apside

Absis

Chornische

Altarnische

Synonyme

apsis

arch

concha

exedra

periastron

recess

semicircular room

lower apse

Übersetzungen

abside

ábside

abside

apsis

αψίδα

abside

absis

ábside

apsyda

absyda

apside

κόγχη

apside

absida

ápside