mosaic的词源
英文词源
- mosaic
- mosaic: [16] Mosaic work is etymologically work ‘of the muses’. The word comes ultimately from Greek mouseion, which originally meant literally ‘place of the muses’, and has also given English museum. Somehow in medieval Latin it became altered to mūsaicus or mōsaicus, and passed via early modern Italian mosaico and French mosaïque into English as mosaic. It has no etymological connection, incidentally, with Mosaic ‘of Moses’ [17].
=> muse, museum - mosaic (n.)
- c. 1400, from Old French mosaicq "mosaic work," from Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin musaicum "mosaic work, work of the Muses," noun use of neuter of musaicus "of the Muses," from Latin Musa (see muse). Medieval mosaics were often dedicated to the Muses. The word formed in Medieval Latin as though from Greek, but the (late) Greek word for "mosaic work" was mouseion (Klein says this sense was borrowed from Latin). Figurative use is from 1640s. As an adjective in English from 1580s. Related: Mosaicist.
- Mosaic (adj.)
- "pertaining to Moses," 1660s (earlier Mosaical, 1560s), from Modern Latin Mosaicus, from Moses.
中文词源
mosaic（马赛克）：献给缪斯女神的艺术
一提起“马赛克”（mosaic）这个词，很多中国人想到的图片或视频中用来遮盖不雅部位的方格子。其实，马赛克是一种历史非常悠久的装饰艺术，指的是用大量小石块或小玻璃等材质拼凑镶嵌形成的装饰图案。英语单词mosaic一词来自希腊语musaicum，意思是“work of Muses”（缪斯女神的作品），可见马赛克在希腊人眼中已经是一门艺术。
在早期原始人所住的洞穴中就能发现用贝壳或石头拼成的马赛克。在人类早期文明中，两河流域的苏美人为减少巨大神殿墙的单调，将之使用在建筑上。在古希腊和古罗马时代，马赛克艺术逐渐普及。
而等基督教徒来到罗马后，马赛克艺术迎来黄金时期。由于当时基督教在罗马受到压迫，艺术成为基督教徒表达信仰的最佳方式。由于他们大多数民众都不识字，他们就把基督教徒的故事和传说在地下室的通道墙壁上做成马赛克拼图画，用于传播基督教徒文化。因此，很多经典的马赛克壁画都还与基督教的传说和故事有关。基督教被罗马人定为国教后，基督教的教堂中大量使用马赛克艺术，并且材料也逐渐发展为色彩斑斓的彩色玻璃。至今人们还能在各地的基督教堂中欣赏绚丽的马赛克艺术。
mosaic： [mə(ʊ)'zeɪɪk] n.马赛克，镶嵌画adj.摩西的，镶嵌的
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：mosaic 词源，mosaic 含义。
来自拉丁语musaicum,献给智慧女神Muse的作品，词源同Muse,museum.一种古代的镶嵌组合艺术作品，后作为电影术语使用。
mosaic：马赛克，镶嵌；镶嵌工艺；镶嵌图案；马赛克画(或图案)
同源词：muse, music, musical, musician, museum
