title: Lacerna in Vlachernä
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Gavrilov, Aleksandr K.
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-07-10T18:36:55Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-07-10T18:36:55Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Aleksandr K. Gavrilov. Lacerna in Vlachernä. Philologia Classica 2018, 13(1), 131–140.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2018.110
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10391
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The author attempts to map the stages through which the Latin appellative lacerna, ‘an open
  cloak fastened at the shoulder’, passed to eventually serve as a toponym Βλαχέρναι. In the
  bilingual times of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, lacerna was not only known but
  also adopted into Greek as λακέρνα / λαχέρνα. Having been used during the life span of two
  generations to designate one of the main relics of the sacred precinct in the north-west of
  Constantinople — the Ἐσθής, or, rather Ἐσθῆτα, the Robe of the Blessed Virgin, λαχέρνα
  shed both its Latin origin and precise meaning in the memory lane of a Greek speaker; in a
  situation of ever diminishing bilingualism, the word came to be used as some kind of a vague
  proper name for the famous church with its relic. Very soon the word made a step further in
  the same direction becoming an umbrella place-name for the whole sacred precinct. In the
  process of adaptation, the beginning of the word underwent a phonetic change to become
  Βλαχέρναι, with the emerging sound having virtually no palpable cause, be it even that certain
  parallels for such can be provided. As the name of the district in the capital of Eastern Rome,
  the word made its return into Latin in the form Vlachernae and due to the significance and
  celebrity of the place came to enjoy worldwide renown.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: de
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Blachernai
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: toponym
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Depositio
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: maphorion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cover of the Virgin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bilingualism phonetic change
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: word history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Lacerna in Vlachernä
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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