hermetic的词源
英文词源
- hermetic
- hermetic: [17] Hermetic means literally ‘of Hermes’. Not Hermes the messenger of the Greek gods, though, but an Egyptian priest of the time of Moses, who in the Middle Ages was regarded as identical with the versatile Hermes in his capacity of patron of science and invention, and who was thus named Hermes Trismegistus ‘Hermes the thrice greatest’. This shadowy figure was the supposed author of various works on alchemy and magic, and so the term hermetic came to be roughly synonymous with alchemical.
One of the inventions credited to Hermes Trismegistus was a magic seal to make containers airtight, and by the 1660s we find hermetic being used for ‘airtight’.
- hermetic (adj.)
- c. 1600 (implied in hermetically), "completely sealed," also (1630s) "dealing with occult science or alchemy," from Latin hermeticus, from Greek Hermes, god of science and art, among other things, identified by Neoplatonists, mystics, and alchemists with the Egyptian god Thoth as Hermes Trismegistos "Thrice-Great Hermes," who supposedly invented the process of making a glass tube airtight (a process in alchemy) using a secret seal.
中文词源
hermetic（密封的）：埃及神话中发明了炼金术的托特
很多炼金术士、神秘学学者和新柏拉图学派学者认为，埃及神话中的智慧之神托特 （Thoth，又译透特或图特）等同于希腊神话中的赫尔墨斯（Hermes）。托特是古埃及神话的智慧之神，相传他是古埃及文字的发明者。人们将托特尊称 为“三倍伟大的赫尔墨斯”，因为他是最伟大的哲学家、最伟大的祭司、最伟大的国王。三倍伟大还有另一种解释：那就是托特（或赫尔墨斯）的学问被分为三大分 支：炼金术、占星术和巫术，它们被认为是宇宙智慧的三个方面。托特创立了赫尔墨斯神智学，据说完全密封玻璃瓶的方法就是他发明的。从赫尔墨斯的名字 Hermes衍生出英语单词hermetic等单词。
hermetic：[hɜː'metɪk] adj.密封的，不透气的，炼金术的n.炼金术士
hermetical：[hɝ'mɛtɪkəl] adj.不透气的，与外界隔绝的
hermeticism：[hə:'metisizəm] n.赫尔墨斯神智学
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来自希腊语Hermes,古希腊神话中的智慧、艺术与技艺之神，与埃及神Thoth一起被古代的柏拉图主义者，神秘主义者和炼金术士奉为祖师爷，被称为Hermes Trismegistos,即Thrice-Great Hermes,因此，一种在炼金术中发明的密封玻璃管就此得名。
