2024年2月28日 · 上述社徽中间有一个雕像，雕像底座铭文为alma mater cantabrigia。 alma mater本义是“养母”，cantabrigia指“剑桥”，alma mater cantabrigia本义是“养母剑桥”，比喻义是“母校剑桥”。 因为在西方人看来大学是人的养母（alma mater）。

An ornamental oval device has in the centre a pedestal, on the front of which is printed ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA. From behind the pedestal rises a nude female figure, three-quarter length, with flowing hair, crowned with a mural crown rising out of a wreath.

上述社徽中间有一个雕像，雕像底座铭文为alma mater cantabrigia。 alma mater本义是“养母”，cantabrigia指“剑桥”，alma mater cantabrigia本义是“养母剑桥”，比喻义是“母校剑桥”。 因为在西方人看来大学是人的养母（alma mater）。

2021年10月27日 · 上述社徽中间有一个雕像，雕像底座铭文为alma mater cantabrigia。 alma mater本义是“养母”，cantabrigia指“剑桥”，alma mater cantabrigia本义是“养母剑桥”，比喻义是“母校剑桥”。 因为在西方人看来大学是人的养母（alma mater）。

Eward, S. M. (1989). Alma- Mater Cantabrigia: A Device in Print and Plaster. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 77. Vol 77, pp. 137-144. https://doi.org/10.5284/1073173. Cite this via datacite

2015年5月18日 · English: An Image of Alma Mater for a title-plate by John Legate, printer of the University of Cambridge. The central pedestal is inscribed with: Alma Mater Cambrigia and the …

“Alma Redemptoris Mater” is a well-known eleventh-century antiphon devoted to Mary. The oldest documented use of the expression to refer to a university in an English-speaking country is in 1600, when the University of Cambridge printer, John Legate, began using an emblem for the university press.

Scattered across Cambridge are reliefs depicting a 400-year-old university emblem. It shows a woman, naked, with milk pouring from her breasts onto an inscription placed below: ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA. This is the source of the Americanism, ‘alma mater’. The inscription translates as NOURISHING MOTHER CAMBRIDGE.

Description: Angels hold the printer’s device of Cambridge University, which features a nude lactating woman holding a sun and a goblet and standing behind a pedestal with the Latin phrase ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA (“nourishing mother Cambridge”) Surrounding this image is the Latin motto of Cambridge HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SACRA (“From this ...

Scattered across Cambridge are reliefs depicting an old university emblem from the year 1600. It shows a woman, naked, lactating, beneath which there is an inscription: ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA. This is where the Americanism ‘alma mater’ comes from. Translated into English, the inscription reads: NOURISHING MOTHER CAMBRIDGE.