hypnosis的词源
英文词源
- hypnosis
- hypnosis: [19] Húpnos was Greek for ‘sleep’. From it was derived the adjective hūpnotikós ‘sleepy, narcotic’, which English acquired via Latin and French as hypnotic [17]. At first this was used only with reference to sleep-inducing drugs, but then in the late 18th and early 19th centuries the techniques of inducing deep sleep or trance by suggestion were developed.
Early terms for the procedure included animal magnetism and mesmerism (see MESMERIZE), and then in 1842 Dr James Braid coined neurohypnotism for what he called the ‘condition of nervous sleep’. By the end of the 1840s this had become simply hypnotism. Hypnosis was coined in the 1870s as an alternative, on the model of a hypothetical Greek *hypnosis.
- hypnosis (n.)
- 1869, "the coming on of sleep," coined (as an alternative to hypnotism) from Greek hypnos "sleep" (see somnolence) + -osis "condition." Of an artificially induced condition, from 1880.
中文词源
hypnosis（催眠）：希腊神话中的睡神许普诺斯
许普诺斯（Hypnos）是希腊神话中的睡神，是黑夜女神尼克斯的儿子，死神桑纳托斯的兄弟。与其无情的兄弟相比，许普诺斯的性格较为温柔，往往在人的死亡之际，给予其恒久的睡眠。据说睡神总是身穿白色的衣服， 手上拿着一朵罂粟花，凡是被罂粟花扫过的人，就可以一夜安眠到天亮。许普诺斯具有强大的使人入睡的能力，就连宙斯也能难逃其威力。在特洛伊战争期间，天后赫拉计划把宙斯催眠，趁他熟睡暗中帮助希腊人。赫拉找到了许普诺斯，让他帮忙催眠宙斯。许普诺斯一开始不敢帮，怕宙斯发怒。于是，赫拉许诺把美丽的海仙女帕西提亚嫁给他。色令智昏，许普诺斯就帮赫拉催眠了宙斯。事发后愤怒的宙斯把许普诺斯从天上打入了冥府。
从许普诺斯的名字Hypnos中产生了表示“睡眠”的词根hypnos-，等于sleep。
hypnosis： [hɪp'nəʊsɪs] n.催眠，催眠状态
hypnosia： [hɪp'nəʊzɪə] n.嗜睡症
hypnotize： ['hɪpnətaɪz] v.施催眠术，使着迷，使恍惚
hypnotism： ['hɪpnətɪz(ə)m] n.催眠术，催眠状态
hypnotic： [hɪp'nɒtɪk] adj.催眠的，催眠术的，易于催眠的n.安眠药，催眠状态的人
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：hypnosis 词源，hypnosis 含义。
hypno-,睡觉，催眠，-osis,情况，疾病征兆。引申词义催眠，催眠状态。
