Aceldama
See also: aceldama
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Ἀκελδαμάχ (Akeldamákh), from Aramaic חקל (“field”) + דמא (“blood”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Aceldama
- The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood.
Translations
[edit]the potter's field purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master
Noun
[edit]Aceldama (plural Aceldamas)
- A field of bloodshed, a place of slaughter. [from 17th c.]
- 1849, Thomas de Quincey, The English Mail-Coach:
- […] a regiment already for some hours glorified and hallowed to the ear of all London, as lying stretched, by a large majority, upon one bloody aceldama […]
- 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 42:
- Our own trenches had been knocked silly, and all the area of attack had been turned into an Aceldama.
Translations
[edit]figuratively, a field of bloodshed
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