Idiot - Etymology From: Wiki English Idiot entry 第一段第一行中,idiot源自古希腊语, ἴδιος, idios:私人的,某人自己的。第二段第一行中,在雅典民主时代,idiot指的是自我中心的人,只关心与公共事务相对的私人事务。(哭晕在厕所。) Idiot as a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης...
emergence of domination of one man (or group) over another. Not insignificantly, Cain is the Bible's first mentioned city-builder (Genesis 4:17). The ubiquitous termκυριος(kurios), sir or lord, derives from an ancient word for spear, as does theRomanterm for town council:curia....
of words — basically, without speech there is no conscious thought and without the word (ονομα,onoma) there is no law (νομος,nomos) — and words are social things that formed like mist in the cooling night, spontaneously in the vast realm of increasingly calm and cooperative...
In 16c., an idiot sometimes became a nidiot (1530s), which, with still-common casual pronunciation, became nidget (1570s), now, alas, no longer whinnying with us. Also compare ingle (n.2), an Elizabethan word for "a boy-favourite (in bad sense), a catamite" [OED, 1989], common...
idiotism khedive mansuetude peculiar per se See All Related Words (39) Advertisement Want to remove ads?Log into see fewer ads, and become aPremium Memberto remove all ads. Trends ofidiom adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/ with a 7-year moving average; ngrams are probably unreliable. ...
Origin and history of fool(n.1) 翻译成: 简体中文 (Chinese) early 13c., "silly, stupid, or ignorant person," from Old Frenchfol"madman, insane person; idiot; rogue; jester," also "blacksmith's bellows," also an adjective meaning "mad, insane" (12c., Modern Frenchfou), from Medieval...
Sense deteriorated to "dull, awkward, uncouth, boorish" (c. 1300), perhaps via the notion of "humble." Further evolution to "foolish, simple, stupid" (mid-15c.) and "crazy" (1530s) probably was influenced by analogy with daffe "halfwit, fool, idiot" (see daffy); the whole group pr...
(mermaids, werewolves, lamia, satyrs, the beast of the Apocalypse), "a brutish or stupid man," from Old French beste "animal, wild beast," figuratively "fool, idiot" (11c., Modern French bête), from Vulgar Latin *besta, from Latin bestia "beast, wild animal," which is of unknown ...
"the sum of the cognitive facilities (except sense or sense and imagination), the… See origin and meaning of intellect.
"a changeling; a foolish or otherwise defective child left by the fairies in place of… See origin and meaning of oaf.