解释
- n. X形十字；圣安得鲁十字
※ 提供单词"saltire"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
英文词源
- saltire (n.)
- c. 1400, an ordinary that resembles a St. Andrew's Cross on a shield or flag, consisting of a bend dexter and a bend sinister crossing each other, from Middle French saultoir, literally "stirrup," from Medieval Latin saltatorium, properly neuter of Latin saltatorius "pertaining to leaping," from salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). The connection between a stirrup and the diagonal cross is perhaps the two deltoid shapes that comprise the cross.