cephalophore

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.
    — According to William of Worcester, quite a large number of Cornish saints were cephalophores: besides S. Nectan and S. Willow, he tells us that “there were three brothers under the name of Genesius and each one carried his head.”
  2. Synonym of cephalopod: a mollusk of the class Cephalopoda. obsolete

词形变化

cephalophores plural

词源

From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”), a derivative of φέρω (phérō, “I bear, I carry”); in the Christian sense, via French céphalophore, coined by Marcel Hébert in 1914.
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