chaos

• n. 混沌、混乱
• n.（カオス）人の名前；（西）カオス

神学用語。

chaos

chaos: see gas

chaos (n.)

late 14c., "gaping void," from Old French chaos (14c.) or directly from Latin chaos, from Greek khaos "abyss, that which gapes wide open, is vast and empty," from *khnwos, from PIE root *gheu- "to gape, yawn" (cognates: Greek khaino "I yawn," Old English ginian, Old Norse ginnunga-gap; see yawn (v.)).

Meaning "utter confusion" (c. 1600) is extended from theological use of chaos for "the void at the beginning of creation" in Vulgate version of Genesis (1530s in English). The Greek for "disorder" was tarakhe, however the use of chaos here was rooted in Hesiod ("Theogony"), who describes khaos as the primeval emptiness of the Universe, begetter of Erebus and Nyx ("Night"), and in Ovid ("Metamorphoses"), who opposes Khaos to Kosmos, "the ordered Universe." Meaning "orderless confusion" in human affairs is from c. 1600. Chaos theory in the modern mathematical sense is attested from c. 1977.

1. Whatever troubles arise，we 'll have peace of mind amidst seeming chaos .

どんなトラブルが発生しても、私たちは混乱しているような状況の中で穏やかな気持ちを維持します。

2.Many editorials express their anxieties about the economic chaos in the country.

多くの社説は同国経済の混乱状況を憂慮している。

3.He needs them to stop the country sliding into chaos .

彼はこの国が混乱に陥るのを防ぐために彼らを必要としている。

4.I think it 's going to cause chaos personally but never mind.

個人的には混乱を引き起こすと思いますが、大丈夫です。

5.The world 's first transatlantic balloon race ended in chaos last night.

昨夜の世界初の大西洋横断熱気球試合は混乱の中で終わった。