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語源 1

Learned borrowing from Latin psychē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”).

発音

• enPR: sī'kē
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈsaɪ.ki/
  • (General Australian) IPA: /ˈsɑe.ki/
  • (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈsaɪ.ki/, [ˈsɑe̯.ki]

名詞

psyche (plural psyches)

1. The human soul, mind, or spirit.
   • 2022 January 28, Em Beihold, Nick Lopez, Dru DeCaro, “Numb Little Bug”, in Egg in the Backseat‎, performed by Em Beihold:

     I've been driving in L.A. / And the world, it feels too big / Like a floating ball that's bound to break / Snap my psyche like a twig

   • 2023 November 20, Rory Carroll, Lisa O'Carroll, “‘It’s part of our psyche’: why Ireland sides with ‘underdog’ Palestine”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     We feel we have been victimised over the centuries. It’s part of our psyche – underneath it all we side with the underdog.”

2. (chiefly psychology) The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.
3. A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia.

派生語

語源 2

Shortened form of psychology, from French psychologie, from Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”)

別の表記

• psych

発音

• IPA: /ˈsaɪk/
• 韻: -aɪk

名詞

psyche (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of psychology.

間投詞

psyche

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of psych.

動詞

psyche (third-person singular simple present psyches, present participle psyching, simple past and past participle psyched)

1. Alternative form of psych.

Further reading

• “psyche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “psyche”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpsyː.kʰeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpsiː.ke]

名詞

psȳchē f (genitive psȳchēs); first declension

1. mind
2. spirit

語形変化

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

派生した語