Godspellとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Analysed as God +‎ spell, literally “God-message”, an alteration of earlier gōdspell (“good news”), from gōd (“good”) +‎ spell (“message, news”), a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin bona annūntiātiō or bonus nūntius, which was a then-current explanation of the meaning of Ecclesiastical Latin ēvangelium, from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡodˌspell/, [ˈɡodˌspeɫ]

名詞

godspell n

1. gospel

語形変化

派生語

• godspellian (“evangelize”)
• godspellere (“evangelist”)

派生した語

• Middle English: gospel, gospell, godspel, godspell, goddspell
  • English: gospel
• → Old Norse: guðspjall (calque)
  • Icelandic: guðspjall