reliquary

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A container to hold or display religious relics.
    — “… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.[…]The other piece—the one that concerns us—is known as the Borgia reliquary.”
  2. An object that sustains the memory of past people or events. figuratively
  3. A person who owes a balance.

词形变化

reliquaries plural

词汇关系

衍生词
reliquarylike
相关词
relic
并列词
fereter feretery feretory chasse philatory stupa

词源

Borrowed from Middle French reliquaire (modern French reliquaire), from Late Latin reliquiarium, from rēliquia (“a relic”) (English relic), noun use of reliquus (“abandoned, left behind, relict”), from relinquō (“to relinquish”), from re- (“again”) and linquō (“to leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leikʷ-.
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