hexameron

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /hɛkˈsæ.mə.rɔn/|/hɛkˈsæ.mə.rən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The six days in which God created the world according to the biblical creation story.
    — He drew melancholy comparisons from Nature: men were compared to wandering clouds that dissolve into nothing, to wavering shadows, and shipwrecked beings, etc. His homilies on the Hexameron, too, shew thought of Nature.
  2. The narrative in the Book of Genesis describing the events of the hexameron.
  3. A treatise or sermon concerning the biblical creation story.

词形变化

hexamerons plural Hexameron alternative hexæmeron alternative hexaëmeron alternative hexaemeron alternative hexahemeron alternative

词汇关系

上位词
cosmogony
相关词
Decameron

词源

From Ancient Greek ἑξαήμερον (hexaḗmeron, “six-day”).
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