paternoster
Pronunciation: /pa.tɛrˈnɔs.tɛr/
“paternoster” is a Polish word. Its 5 meanings in English:
noun
- Lord's Prayer (prayer which, according to the New Testament of the Bible, Jesus Christ taught his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount)
- paternoster (slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building)
- paternoster, rosary (string of beads used in counting prayers that are said)
- paternoster (tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker)
- rebuke, warning
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Pater noster.
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