"Angely s labarami"?

[Osinskaya, Elena]

>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary:



Labarum : \Lab"a*rum\, n.; pl. Labara. [L.] The standard adopted by the
Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is
described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and
surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two
letters (CHR) 

 

Please, see also this source:

 

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/labara

 

Best,

Elena

 

Elena Osinsky

International Programs

University of Iowa

http://www.uiowa.edu/~allnet

 

 

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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] "Angely s labarami"?

 

>M. Vrubel' painted a painting called "Angely s 

>labarami". What are labary? How is the word 

>pronounced (lAbary, labAry, labarY)? What is its 

>gender in the singular? Where does the word come 

>from? It is missing in all the dictionaries I 

>can find.

>Thank you all for your kind help,


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