a type of passenger lift, of several distinct designs, that moves continuously in a loop with multiple carriers for passengers · manlift (a lift consisting of a series of handle-and-step groups)
köken: Calque of German Paternosteraufzug. Compound of paternoster (“paternoster; rosary”) + hiss (“elevator; lift”). Named after the constructions visual similarity to a Catholic paternoster (“rosary”), a byname from the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin, "pater noster" (“our father”). First attested in 1909.
[…] i sin nybyggnad vid Kungsträdgårdsgatan inreda en s. k. paternosterhiss […]
Lord's Prayer (prayer which, according to the New Testament of the Bible, Jesus Christ taught his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount) · paternoster (slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building) · paternoster, rosary (string of beads used in counting prayers that are said)
çekim: çoğul paternostery · tamlayan paternosteru
köken: Etymology tree Latin Pater nosterlbor. Polish paternoster Learned borrowing from Latin Pater noster.
paternoster (the Lord's prayer) · paternoster (a slow, continuously moving lift or elevator)
çekim: çoğul páternoszterek
köken: Borrowed from Latin pater noster (literally “our father”), the two first words of the Oratio Dominica, the Lord's prayer. Later influenced by German Paternoster (“paternoster”).