pomerium

名词 n.
/pəʊ̆ˈmɪə.ɹɪ.əm/|/pɒ-/    /poʊˈmɛ.ɹi.əm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ritually established and sacred formal boundary of the territory of a Roman city; the territory thus bound. historical
    — Nay Sidonius Apollinaris aſſures us farther, that the Place where St. Peter was buried, tho' there was then a Church built over it, was ſtill in his Time, An. 470. without the Pomœria, or Space before the Walls of Rome. For ſpeaking of his Journey to Rome, he ſays, before ever he came at the Pomœria of the City, he went and ſaluted the Church of the Apoſtles, which ſtood in the Via Triumphalis.

词形变化

pomeria plural pomarium alternative pomoerium alternative pomœrium alternative

词源

From Latin pōmoerium, pōmērium (“the religious boundary of a city”), either from post (“behind”) + moerus, mūrus (“wall”) + -ium (neuter form of -ius (adjective-forming suffix)), or derived from an Etruscan word.
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