halo (circular band of coloured light, visible around the Sun or Moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere)
çekim: çoğul Halos · tamlayan Halos
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin halo, from accusative of Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “disk of the sun or moon; ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor with its surrounding threshold; disk of a shield”).
Halo (atmospheric phenomenon) · Similar visual effect resulting from undesirable, roughly circular spots on an imperfectly developed photograph
çekim: çoğul halos
köken: From Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “disk of the sun or moon, ring of light around the sun or moon; threshing floor; disk of a shield”), itself of unknown origin.
köken: From Latin halōs, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs); given an n-stem ending as if the Latin term were *halō, accusative *halōnem. Cognate with Sicilian aluni.
aureole, glory, halo, nimbus (luminous disc around the heads of saints in sacred art) · aureole, halo, nimbus (light circle around some sources of light) · aureole (hair resembling a halo around the heads of saints)
çekim: çoğul aureole · tamlayan aureoli
eş: nimb, halo
köken: Etymology tree Medieval Latin aureola corōnalbor. Polish aureola Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin aureola corōna.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cerco (“circle”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin circus. Cognate with Portuguese cerco and Spanish cerco.
1345, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 261
1460, J. A. Souto Cabo (ed.), Crónica de Santa María de Íria. Santiago: Seminario de Estudos Galegos/Ediciós do Castro, page 102
Etimoloji
Medieval Latin, from Latin halos, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs, “disk of the sun or moon”). Related to English and Danish halo.