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Meaningan arch
Common meaning: a recess at the end of a church
- apsa loop; an archLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 142 · scan
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek ἁψίς ‘a loop; an arch’.
Roots
- ἁψίς Greek “a loop; an arch”
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