This flashcard defines "paternoster" as a sequence of words used as a formula or charm, a continuously looping elevator, or the Lord’s Prayer on a rosary. It originates from the Latin words "pater noster", meaning "our father".
Este flashcard define "paternoster" como una secuencia de palabras usada como fórmula o encanto, un ascensor continuo en bucle, o la Oración del Señor en un rosario. Proviene de las palabras latinas "pater noster", que significa "padre nuestro".
| Back | paternoster /PAY-tuhr NOS-tuhr, PAH-, PAT-/ |
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| Front | noun 1. A sequence of words used as a formula, a charm, etc. 2. A continuously moving endless elevator that goes in a loop. 3. The Lord’s Prayer; one of the certain larger beads in a rosary on which the Lord’s Prayer is said. [From Latin pater noster (our father), opening words of the Lord’s Prayer in Latin. Earliest documented use: before 900.] “She trudged doggedly across the last field, inwardly muttering her paternoster.” - Christina Shea; Smuggled: A Novel; Grove/Atlantic; 2011. “We’d ride the open-sided paternoster elevators and giggle at the scare they gave us.” - Mary Helen Dirkx; A Great Adventure in The Shadow of War; Newsweek (New York); Sep 13, 2004. |
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