The corpus record — Latin

absis

absis · f

a fitting together

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What it meant

absis — Lewis & Short

absis or apsis, īdis (collat. form ab-sīda, ae, f., = a(yi/s, lit.

Paul. Ep. 12; cf. Isid. Orig. 15, 8, 7),

I a fitting together in a circular form, hence an arch or vault.

I Plin. Ep. 2, 17 (but in Plin. 36, 12, 17, the correct read. is aspidem, v. Sillig ad h. l.). —In a church, the choir, Isid. Orig. 15, 18, 7, and Paul. Ep. 12 (in both of which it is doubtful whether absis, idis, or absida, ae, should be read; cf. Areval upon Isid. l. c.). —

II The circle which a star describes in its orbit, Plin. 2, 18, 16, § 79; cf. id. 2, 15, 13, § 63.—

III A round dish or bowl, Dig. 34, 2, 19, § 6; ib. Fragm. 32, § 1.

Where it came from

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