catafalque

名词 n.
/ˈkatəfalk/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.
    — Until noon, the hour of the funeral, crowds continued to file by the plain pine coffin on its plain flower-covered catafalque.

词形变化

catafalques plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.?
Proto-Hellenic *kətá
Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ́ (kătắ)
Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀 (fala)bor.
Latin fala
Vulgar Latin [Term?]?
Italian catafalcobor.
French catafalquebor.
English catafalque
Borrowed from French catafalque, from Italian catafalco, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum, from Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “down”) + Latin fala (“scaffolding, wooden siege tower”), which is from Etruscan. Also influenced scaffold.
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