propaganda的词源
英文词源
- propaganda
- propaganda: [18] English gets the word propaganda from the term Propaganda Fide, the name of a Roman Catholic organization charged with the spreading of the gospel. This meant literally ‘propagating the faith’, prōpāgānda being the feminine gerunpe of Latin prōpāgāre, source of English propagate [16]. Originally prōpāgāre was a botanical verb, as its English descendant remains, only secondarily broadening out metaphorically to ‘extend, spread’.
It was derived from the noun prōpāgo ‘cutting, scion’, which in turn was formed from the prefix prō- ‘forth’ and the base *pāg- ‘fix’ (source of English pagan, page, pale ‘stake’, etc).
=> pagan, page, pale, propagate - propaganda (n.)
- 1718, "committee of cardinals in charge of Catholic missionary work," short for Congregatio de Propaganda Fide "congregation for propagating the faith," a committee of cardinals established 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions. The word is properly the ablative fem. gerunpe of Latin propagare (see propagation). Hence, "any movement to propagate some practice or ideology" (1790). Modern political sense dates from World War I, not originally pejorative. Meaning "material or information propagated to advance a cause, etc." is from 1929.
中文词源
该词系拉丁语借用词。
1 622年6月22日罗马天主教教皇Gregory十五世在罗马设立了一千由13名红衣主教，2名高级教士及1名秘书组成的机构，负责对外传教事业。该机构的拉丁语全称是Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide，相当于英语Sacred Congrega -tion for Propagating the Faith，汉译作“传信部”或“传道总会”，1718年在英国被称作the Congregation of the Propaganda，1819年简称为the Propaganda。英国新教徒(Protestants)把该机构的传教工作说成是传播谎言，使propaganda一词后来逐渐蒙上贬抑含义。起初propaganda指“传教机构”，到了20世纪初开始用以泛指任何形式的“宣传”。在两次世界大战期间，该词使用得十分广泛。由于当时许多宣传都夹带着感情、夸大和虚假的成分在内，因此propaganda常被当作贬义词来用。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：propaganda 词源，propaganda 含义。
来自拉丁语propagare,延伸，扩展，繁殖，词源同propagate,-and,动名词后缀，-a,表阴性。引申词义宣传者，传道者。
“地理大发现”后的十六世纪，南美等地基督教的传播由西葡两牙的传教士为主，罗马教皇坐不住了，特地成立了一个叫“congregatio de propaganda fide”的圣会来直接管理未信教地区的事务，后被称为propaganda，意为“things ought to be propagated”。
