paternosterhiss
Swedish
editEtymology
editCalque 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.[1]
Noun
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- paternoster (lift; loop of open-fronted cabins)
- Synonym: flaskhiss
- 1913 January 23, Dagens Nyheter[1], page 3:
- […] i sin nybyggnad vid Kungsträdgårdsgatan inreda en s. k. paternosterhiss […]
- […] in its new building at Kungsträdgårdsgatan, furnish a so-called paternoster lift […]
- manlift (lift; a series of handle-and-step groups)
- Synonym: manlift
- 2019 July 31, Lennart Lundquist, “Paternosterhiss förbjuds efter allvarlig olycka [Paternoster lift banned after serious accident]”, in Arbetarskydd[2]:
- Hur allvarligt den anställde skadade sig vid olyckan i den så kallad paternosterhissen i december 2018, på Vargön Alloys utanför Vänersborg, framgår inte av Arbetsmiljöverkets förbud.
- How seriously the employee was injured in the accident in the so-called manlift in December 2018, at Vargön Alloys outside Vänersborg, is not clear from the Work Environment Authority's ban.