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Promethean
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/09/15 02:46 UTC 版)
語源
Something is said to be Promethean (sense 2) when it pertains to the promethea silkmoth (Callosamia promethea).
The adjective is derived from Prometheus (“demigod in Greek mythology”) + -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns). Prometheus is a learned borrowing from Latin Promētheus, and from its etymon Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús), from προμηθής (promēthḗs, “having forethought”) (from προ- (pro-, prefix meaning ‘before’) + μᾰνθᾰ́νω (mănthắnō, “to learn; to know, understand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to mind; to think”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”), in the sense of putting one’s mind to something)) + -εύς (-eús, suffix forming a masculine noun of the person concerned with a thing).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
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形容詞
Promethean (comparative more Promethean, superlative most Promethean)
- Of or pertaining to Prometheus, a demigod in Greek mythology who created mortals from clay and stole fire from Zeus to give to them, for which Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock and having an eagle feed on his liver which grew back each night; he was later rescued by Heracles.
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2006 September, Edwin Black, “Power Struggle”, in Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 11:
- (rare) Of or pertaining to the promethea silkmoth (Callosamia promethea).
派生語
- Prometheanism
名詞
Promethean (plural Prometheans)
- One with the qualities of Prometheus, or who acts in a Promethean manner (audaciously, creatively, etc.).
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1929, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Outline of the Fall”, in The Thing: Why I am a Catholic, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1930, →OCLC, page 226:
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The Fall is a view of life. It is not only the only enlightening, but the only encouraging view of life. It holds, as against the only real alternative philosophies, those of the Buddhist or the Pessimist or the Promethean.
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- (also attributive, historical) A kind of lucifer match consisting of a glass tube containing sulfuric acid coated on the outside with a flammable mixture of potassium chlorate and sugar and wrapped in paper rolls; the match was lit by crushing the tube with pliers, causing the acid to react with and ignite the flammable components. This type of match was superseded by the friction match which was lit by rubbing against a rough surface.
参照
- ↑ “Promethean, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “Promethean, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. - ^ “Prometheus, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “Prometheus, proper n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
アナグラム
- heptameron, thermopane
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