mosaic

英 [m?(?)'ze??k] 美[mo'ze?k]

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復數:?mosaics;

1. 音譯“馬賽克”。

mosaic 馬賽克

來自拉丁語musaicum,獻給智慧女神Muse的作品，詞源同Muse,museum.一種古代的鑲嵌組合藝術作品，后作為電影術語使用。

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 mosa?que 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.

3. I was admiring the exquisite workmanship in the mosaic.: 我當時正在欣賞鑲嵌畫的精致做工.

4. Archaeologists have worked for years to piece together the huge mosaic.: 考古學家經年累月拼組這幅巨大的馬賽克.

5. Major works of painting, sculpture, mosaic and architecture were examined in situ in Venice.: 重要的繪畫、雕塑、鑲嵌畫和建筑作品都在威尼斯原地得到了仔細檢查。