belief
英 [bɪ'liːf]
美 [bɪ'lif]
英語の語源
- belief (n.)
- late 12c., bileave, replacing Old English geleafa "belief, faith," from West Germanic *ga-laubon "to hold dear, esteem, trust" (cognates: Old Saxon gilobo, Middle Dutch gelove, Old High German giloubo, German Glaube), from *galaub- "dear, esteemed," from intensive prefix *ga- + *leubh- "to care, desire, like, love" (see love (v.)). The prefix was altered on analogy of the verb believe. The distinction of the final consonant from that of believe developed 15c.
"The be-, which is not a natural prefix of nouns, was prefixed on the analogy of the vb. (where it is naturally an intensive) .... [OED]
Belief used to mean "trust in God," while faith meant "loyalty to a person based on promise or duty" (a sense preserved in keep one's faith, in good (or bad) faith and in common usage of faithful, faithless, which contain no notion of divinity). But faith, as cognate of Latin fides, took on the religious sense beginning in 14c. translations, and belief had by 16c. become limited to "mental acceptance of something as true," from the religious use in the sense of "things held to be true as a matter of religious doctrine" (a sense attested from early 13c.).
例文
- 1. The Greeks accepted belief in the immortality of the soul.
- ギリシャ人は魂は滅びないと信じている。
- 2.Sweden is lovely in summer-cold beyond belief in winter.
- スウェーデンの夏はとても心地よい--冬は信じられないほど寒い。
- 3.America 's belief in its own God-ordained uniqueness started to erode.アメリカ人の心の中で神が彼らにユニークな品質を与えたという信念が失われ始めている。
- 4. Belief in the utility of higher education is shared by students nationwide.
- 全国の学生は高等教育が役に立つと信じている。
- 5.He holds the belief that he is a latter-day prophet.
- 彼は自分が当代の預言者だと信じている。