單詞
confarreation
英 [k?n,f?ri?'e???n]
美
基本信息
- n. 祭面餅婚禮(古羅馬最隆重的婚禮。婚禮中有向主神朱庇特獻祭面餅的儀式,故名)
英文詞源
- confarreation (n.)
- c. 1600, from Latin confarreationem, from confarreare "to unite in marriage by the Ceremony of the Cake," from com- "with, together" (see com-) + far, farris "spelt, grain, meal" (see barley). In ancient Rome, the most solemn form of marriage, in which an offering of bread was made in the presence of the Pontifex Maximus and 10 witnesses.
雙語例句
- 1. Confarreation was in Roman law the oldest and most solemn form of marriage.
- 共食婚是羅馬法中最古老,最莊重的結婚儀式.
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