atavism
英 ['ætəvɪzəm]
美 ['ætə,vɪzəm]
英語の語源
- atavism (n.)
- 1833, from French atavisme, attested by 1820s, from Latin atavus "ancestor, forefather," from at- perhaps here meaning "beyond" + avus "grandfather," from PIE *awo- "adult male relative other than the father" (see uncle).
例文
- 1. They are explainable as a species of mental atavism .
- これらはいずれも精神の先祖返り現象と解釈することができる.
- 2.The civilization craftsman mythology usually exceeds the originality craftsman mythology,though sometimes with the atavism .
- 文明社会の職人神話は原始職人神話を超えていることが多いが、先祖返り現象が見られることもある。
- 3.The atavism appears in the crisscross inheritance as well as in the other genetic way.
- 隔世遺伝は交差遺伝にも他の遺伝にも見られる。
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