sceptic的词源

英文词源

sceptic

sceptic: [16] The Greek verb sképtesthai meant ‘examine, consider’ (it was descended from a base *skep- which was related to *skop-, source of English scope, and may have been a reversed version of *spek-, from which English gets spectator, speculate, etc). From it was derived the adjective skeptikós, which was applied to various schools of philosophy (particularly that of Pyrrho of Elis) which stressed the need for careful examination of a proposition, starting from an attitude of doubt, before accepting it.

The word passed via Latin scepticus and French sceptique into English as sceptic, by which time it had acquired broader connotations of ‘initial doubt’.
=> scope

sceptic (n.)

chiefly British English spelling of skeptic (q.v.). Related: Sceptical; sceptically; scepticism.

中文词源

sceptic：怀疑（论）者

该词源于希腊语skeptikos‘thoughtful’（认真思考的），通过拉丁语scepticus和法语sceptique于16世纪进入英语。古希腊哲学家皮朗(Pyrrhon，360？- 272BC) 一般被认为是哲学上怀疑论的刨始人。他认为事物是不可认识的，人们不能说出任何肯定的东西，甚至不能说出事物是否存在，因此必须放弃认识，放弃判断。sceptic 一词最初就被用来专指以他为代表的这一学派的怀疑论者，后来也指各种怀疑论者，包括不信基督教的人，乃至惯抱怀疑态度的人。sceptic是英国英语拼法，美国英语作skeptic。它有时也作形容词用，相当于sceptical／skeptical。

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：sceptic 词源，sceptic 含义。