daimon
英語
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詞源
[编辑]古希臘語 δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”) 的現代羅馬化，以將其古希臘意義與後來的概念 demons 區分開來。
發音
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]daimon (複數 daimons)
- demon之同義詞，特別是：
- (希臘神話) 守護一個人或一個地方的神祇
- 1890 January, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], “Over the Teacups”, 出自 The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, 卷 LXV, 期 CCCLXXXVII, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, →OCLC，頁號 121:
- All at once, my daimōn—that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person—put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui.
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- 1891, W[alter] J[ames] Hoffman, The Mide’wiwin or “Grand Medicine Society” of the Ojibwa, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC，頁號 163:
- The object which first appears is adopted as the personal mystery, guardian spirit, or tutelary daimon of the entranced, and is never mentioned by him without first making a sacrifice.
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- 1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy: And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, book I, chapter 27:
- Marcus Aurelius is persuaded that God gives every man a special daimon as his guide – a belief which reappears in the Christian guardian angel.
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- 1960, Charles I. Glicksberg, “Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America”, 出自 Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, 卷 1, 期 1, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →OCLC:
- He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace.
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- (希臘神話) 守護一個人或一個地方的神祇
派生詞彙
[编辑]翻譯
[编辑]tutelary deity — 參見：tutelary deity
異序詞
[编辑]豪薩語
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]發音
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]daimòn m
日語
[编辑]羅馬化
[编辑]daimon