deity

英 ['de??t?; 'di??-] 美['de?ti]

TEM8TOEFL低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?deities;

Deity：第一體。最高的生命體----神，神性。?

deity 神

來自PIE*dyeu,發(fā)光，照耀，神，詞源同diurnal, diva, Zeus.

deity: deity: [14] Deity comes via Old French deite from late Latin deitās ‘godhood, divinity’, a derivative of Latin deus ‘god’. This traces its ancestry back to Indo-European *deiwos, which has links with other words meaning ‘sky’ and ‘day’ and probably comes ultimately from a base with the sense ‘bright, shining’. Amongst its other descendants are English divine, the personifications Greek Zeus, Latin Iuppiter and Iovis (source of English jovial), and Old English Tīw (source of English Tuesday), and Sanskrit dēvás ‘god’ (source of English deodar ‘variety of cedar’ [19], literally ‘divine wood’); the superficially similar Greek theós ‘god’, however, is not related.

English is also indebted to Latin deus for deify [14] and, via a somewhat circuitous route, the joss [18] of joss-stick, a Pidgin English word which comes from deos, the Portuguese descendant of deus.
=> divine, joss, jovial, tuesday
deity (n.): c. 1300, "divine nature;" late 14c., "a god," from Old French deité, from Late Latin deitatem (nominative deitas) "divine nature," coined by Augustine from Latin deus "god," from PIE *deiwos (see Zeus).

1. The cross-legged deity exudes wisdom and composure.: 盤腿而坐的神像散發(fā)出智慧與沉靜的氣息。

2. Many animals were seen as the manifestation of a deity.: 許多動(dòng)物被看作神的化身.

4. The Hebrew prophets developed the concept of one God, a national deity.: 希伯來的先知們逐漸發(fā)展了一神論, 這個(gè)神是全民族的神.

5. There is a sense of personal attachment between this image of the deity and the family.: 神像和家族之間存在著一種親切的依戀之感.