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語源

From Ancient Greek κοσμογονία (kosmogonía), from κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + γόνος (gónos, “creation”). By surface analysis, cosmo- +‎ -gony.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɒzˈmɒɡ.ə.ni/
• (General American) IPA: /kɑzˈmɑ.ɡə.ni/
• (General Australian) IPA: /kɔzˈmɔɡ.ə.ni/

名詞

cosmogony (countable and uncountable, plural cosmogonies)

1. The study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe or the solar system, in astrophysics, religion, and other fields.
   • 1758 September, The Monthly Review, London, page 301:

     Mr. Lampredi divides his ſubject into ſeveral heads, viz. Natural Theology, Coſmogony, Ceraunoscopy, i.e. the judgments to be formed from thunder and lightning, Phyſic, Botany, Mechanics, and Politics.

2. Any specific theory, model, myth, or other account of the origin of the universe.
3. The creation of the universe.

同意語

• cosmogenesis, cosmogeny, cosmology; hexameron (biblical)

派生語

参考

• anthropogeny
• cosmography
• eschatology
• glottogony
• theogony

参照

• “cosmogony”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• cosmogony in Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 ed.
• cosmogony in Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., at Bartleby.com.
• cosmogony by John Peter Arendzen, in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Robert Appleton Company, New York, 1913.