rosary的词源
英文词源
- rosary
- rosary: [14] Rosary comes from Latin rosārium ‘rose garden’, a derivative of rosa ‘rose’. It was a common conceit in the Middle Ages to name collections of verse or similar short pieces after bunches of flowers (anthology comes from the Greek word for ‘flower’, and a similar inspiration underlies florilegium, while a 13thcentury volume of the collected works of the Persian poet Sa’di was called the Rose garden).
That was the background against which a collection of Roman Catholic prayers, consisting of Aves, Paternosters, and Glorias, came to be known as a rosary. A string of beads of varying sizes came to be used for counting off how far one has got in saying these prayers (English bead itself comes from a word meaning ‘prayer’), and this too was termed rosary.
=> rose - rosary (n.)
- "rose garden," mid-15c., from Latin rosarium "rose garden," in Medieval Latin also "garland; string of beads; series of prayers," from noun use of neuter of rosarius "of roses," from rosa "rose" (see rose (n.1)).
The sense of "series of prayers" is 1540s, from Middle French rosaire, a figurative use of the word meaning "rose garden," on the notion of a "garden" of prayers. This probably embodies the medieval conceit of comparing collections to bouquets (compare anthology and Medieval Latin hortulus animae "prayerbook," literally "little garden of the soul"). Sense transferred 1590s to the strings of beads used as a memory aid in reciting the rosary.
中文词源
该词源于拉丁语rosarium‘rose garden’（玫瑰园），故它原先也用于此义，和rosery同义，但后来却很少这样用了，而是用以特指罗马天主教徒的“念珠祈祷”或“一串念珠（共165颗）”。关于rosary为何被赋予此义有两种解释。其一，据说最早的念珠是用名为rosewood（黄檀木，花梨木），一种带有玫瑰香昧的木材做的，故人们称念珠为rosary。其二，圣母玛利亚(Virgin Mary)有个称号叫Mystical Rose（神秘的玫瑰）。因此与她有关的祈祷书（即经书）均冠以rosary 一词，如The Rosary of our Lady。以花喻指诗文这一用法并非rosary 一词所独有，anthology（选集）一词的希腊词源含有“花”之义，garland（花环，诗选），posy（花束，铭文）等词也有类似的比喻用法，rosary从“玫瑰园”转而指经书自然也就不足为奇了。由于与rose相联系，rosary常被译为“玫瑰经”，16世纪以后又引申出“念珠祈祷”、“一串念珠”等义。
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：rosary 词源，rosary 含义。
rosary：玫瑰园，玫瑰花坛，玫瑰经，念珠
来自 rose,玫瑰，-ary,表地后缀。即玫瑰园，玫瑰花坛，后用于比喻义满园子的诵经人，引申 词义玫瑰经，念珠。
