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== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /æps/ Rhymes: -æps Homophone: apps === Etymology 1 === From Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch, vault”), from ἅπτω (háptō, “I bind, join”). ==== Noun ==== apse (plural apses or apsides) (architecture) The rounded east end of a church that contains or is behind the altar. Synonyms: apsis, apside Holonyms: church, cathedral Meronyms: ambulatory, apse chapels Near-synonyms: chancel, presbytery, sanctuary (all broadly synonymous) (strictest sense) The interior portion of this section of the church building, excluding the ambulatory and any apse chapels. Comeronyms: ambulatory, apse chapels A semicircular projection from any building that is similar to a church's apse. The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches. Coordinate term: see (his seat in the sense of his episcopal office) A reliquary: a case in which the relics of saints are kept. (astronomy) Obsolete form of apsis (“the nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit”). Synonyms: apsis, apside ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== apse (plural apses) (obsolete or dialectal) An aspen tree. === Anagrams === pase, SEPA, Peas, Paes, PEAs, spae, peas, APEs, Sepa, EAPs, EPAs, apes, PESA == Latvian == === Etymology === From Proto-Baltic *apse, from Proto-Indo-European *apsā, from *(H)osp-, already the name of the same tree. Cognates include Lithuanian ẽpušė, dialectal ãpušė, apušė̃, Old Prussian abse, Proto-Slavic *o(p)sa (Russian оси́на (osína), Ukrainian оси́на (osýna), Belarusian асі́на (asína), all from earlier *o(p)sina, Bulgarian оси́ка (osíka), Czech dialectal and Polish osa, osina), Old High German aspa, Middle High German aspe, German Espe, Old Norse ǫsp, English asp, Swedish asp. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [apsɛ] === Noun === apse f (5th declension) aspen tree (esp. Populus tremula) apses koksne ― aspen wood smaržīgā apse ― fragrant aspen ātraudzīgā apse ― fast-growing aspen trīc kā apšu lapa ― (s/he) trembles like an aspen leaf ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== apsājs (“aspen forest”) === References === === Anagrams === pase == Turkish == === Etymology === Borrowed from French abcès, from Latin abscessus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ap.se/ Hyphenation: ap‧se === Noun === apse (definite accusative apseyi, plural apseler) (pathology) abscess ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “apse”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “apse”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı