angel的词源
英文词源
- angel
- angel: [12] In a sense, English already had this word in Anglo-Saxon times; texts of around 950 mention englas ‘angels’. But in that form (which had a hard g) it came directly from Latin angelus. The word we use today, with its soft g, came from Old French angele (the ‘hard g’ form survived until the 13th century). The French word was in its turn, of course, acquired from Latin, which adopted it from Greek ángelos or ággelos.
This meant literally ‘messenger’, and its use in religious contexts arises from its being used as a direct translation of Hebrew mal’ākh ‘messenger’, the term used in the scriptures for God’s intermediaries. The Greek word itself may be of Persian origin.
=> evangelist - angel (n.)
- 14c. fusion of Old English engel (with hard -g-) and Old French angele, both from Latin angelus, from Greek angelos "messenger, envoy, one that announces," possibly related to angaros "mounted courier," both from an unknown Oriental word (Watkins compares Sanskrit ajira- "swift;" Klein suggests Semitic sources). Used in Scriptural translations for Hebrew mal'akh (yehowah) "messenger (of Jehovah)," from base l-'-k "to send." An Old English word for it was aerendgast, literally "errand-spirit."
Of persons, "loving; lovely," by 1590s. The medieval gold coin (a new issue of the noble, first struck 1465 by Edward VI) was so called for the image of archangel Michael slaying the dragon, which was stamped on it. It was the coin given to patients who had been "touched" for the King's Evil. Angel food cake is from 1881; angel dust "phencyclidine" is from 1968.
中文词源
angel（天使）：上帝与凡人交流的信使
英语单词angel源自希腊单词angelos，原意是“信使”。在犹太教中，天使是上帝与凡人的沟通渠道，上帝的言语是通过天使来传递给凡人的，因为凡人无法承受上帝声音的巨大能量。希腊人将希伯来语的旧约翻译成希腊语时，就用angelos这个词来表示天使，后来演变成为英语单词angel。
在犹太教、基督教和伊斯兰教中，都有使者这一概念，在中文中翻译为天使。在最初的犹太宗教中，天使是圣经中所提到的一种大能的灵体生物，由上帝耶和华所造，具有自由意志，故有反抗上帝而被打入地狱的“堕落天使”。《圣经》和《古兰》都认为天使是没有实体的灵体。在艺术作品中天使有时是人形，身上发光，头顶有光环，有的长有翅膀。
天使会保护圣徒和善人，也会根据上帝的指令，严厉惩罚恶人，如毁灭罪恶之城所多玛、蛾摩拉，一夜之间杀死十八万五千亚述人士兵、令所有埃及人的头一胎婴儿和家畜死亡等。
angel： ['eɪndʒ(ə)l]n.天使，守护神。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：angel 词源，angel 含义。
可能来自希伯来语。
该词源于希腊语angelos．原义是messenger（使者，送信人），13世纪通过古法语angele进入英语。和devil一样，angel也是因为圣经的影响才获得我们今天熟知的词义，即“天
使”或“天真可爱的人”。
