prophet基本信息
读法：英 ["prɒfɪt] 美 ["prɑfɪt]
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英英释义
Noun:
中英词源
prophet 预言家，先知wWw.wenTIYi.Com
来自拉丁语propheta,预言家，先知，来自pro-,提前，-phet,说，来自PIE*bha,说，词源同fate,phone.
- prophet
- prophet: [12] A prophet is etymologically someone who ‘speaks for’ another. The word comes via Old French prophete and Latin prophēta from Greek prophétēs, a compound noun formed from the prefix pro- ‘for’ and -phētēs ‘speaker’ (a derivative of phánai ‘speak’, which goes back to the same Indo-European base, *bha- ‘speak’, as produced English fable, fate, etc).
It meant literally ‘spokesman’, and was frequently used specifically for ‘one who interprets the will of the gods to humans’. The Greek translators of the Bible adopted it into Christian usage. Prophecy [13] comes ultimately from the Greek derivative prophētíā.
=> fable, fame, fate - prophet (n.)
- late 12c., "person who speaks for God; one who foretells, inspired preacher," from Old French prophete, profete "prophet, soothsayer" (11c., Modern French prophète) and directly from Latin propheta, from Greek prophetes (Doric prophatas) "an interpreter, spokesman," especially of the gods, "inspired preacher or teacher," from pro- "before" (see pro-) + root of phanai "to speak," from PIE *bha- (2) "speak" (see fame (n.)).
The Greek word was used in Septuagint for Hebrew nabj "soothsayer." Early Latin writers translated Greek prophetes with Latin vates, but the Latinized form propheta predominated in post-Classical times, chiefly due to Christian writers, probably because of pagan associations of vates. In English, meaning "prophetic writer of the Old Testament" is from late 14c. Non-religious sense is from 1848; used of Muhammad from 1610s (translating Arabic al-nabiy, and sometimes also al-rasul, properly "the messenger"). The Latin word is glossed in Old English by witga.
词态变化
复数 prophets;
权威造句
- 1. He holds the belief that he is a latter-day prophet.
- 他深信自己是当代先知。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The faithful revered him then as a prophet.
- 那时，信徒们尊他为先知。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. A prophet made a prophecy that the kingdom would fall.
- 一位预言家预言那个王国将要灭亡.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The pity is that you are not a prophet.
- 可惜你不能未卜先知.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 5. They accept the Prophet"s precepts but reject some of his strictures.
- 他们接受先知的教训,但拒绝他的种种约束.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
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