analemma
英 [,ænə'lemə]
美 [,ænə'lɛmə]
- n. （在地球仪上表示全年太阳的赤纬和时差的）地球仪8字曲线
英文词源
- analemma (n.)
- 1650s, from Latin analemma "the pedestal of a sundial," hence the sundial itself, from Greek analemma "prop, support," from analambanein "to receive, take up, restore," from ana- "up" (see ana-) + lambanein "to take," from PIE root *(s)lagw- "to seize, take" (cognates: Sanskrit labhate, rabhate "seizes;" Old English læccan "to seize, grasp;" Greek lazomai "I take, grasp;" Old Church Slavonic leca "to catch, snare;" Lithuanian lobis "possession, riches").