rood
十字架像
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
rood は現代の日常語ではなく、古い教会建築・美術の語です。rood cross や rood screen の組み合わせで覚え、教会の内陣入口付近に掲げられた、十字架上のキリスト像を思い浮かべましょう。単なる cross より歴史的・宗教美術的な用語で、rod「棒」と同系とされる古英語の語形にも注目します。
Rood is an old church and art term, not an everyday substitute for cross. Remember it through the fixed expressions rood cross and rood screen. Picture a medieval church: a large figure of Christ on the cross stands high near the entrance to the chancel, often above a screen separating parts of the building. That image identifies the specialized meaning. The visual similarity between a cross and intersecting rods can also connect rood with its ancient Germanic background, but the safest memory cue is its recurring architectural setting.
rood の類義語・関連語
rood の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語「rōd（十字架、はりつけ柱）」から。ゲルマン祖語に遡る古い語で「rod（棒）」と同根。関連語：rood screen（内陣仕切り）。キリスト磔刑の柱を指したことから、教会に置かれる十字架像の意味に特化した。
Rood comes from Old English rōd, meaning a cross or the wooden instrument of crucifixion. It belongs to an old Germanic group of words for a pole, staff, or cross and is historically related to rod. In medieval Christian use, the word became specialized for a prominent representation of Christ crucified, particularly one placed above a rood screen at the entrance to a church chancel.
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