hermetic

• adj.密閉された；外界と遮断された；気密の；錬金術的な
• n. 錬金術師

古代ギリシア神話に登場する知恵、芸術、工芸の神ヘルメスは、エジプトの神トートとともに、古代のプラトン主義者、神秘主義者、錬金術師たちからヘルメス?トリスメギストス、すなわち三大ヘルメスとして崇拝されていた。錬金術で発明された一種の密閉ガラス管につけられた名前。

hermetic

hermetic: [17] Hermetic means literally ‘of Hermes’. Not Hermes the messenger of the Greek gods, though, but an Egyptian priest of the time of Moses, who in the Middle Ages was regarded as identical with the versatile Hermes in his capacity of patron of science and invention, and who was thus named Hermes Trismegistus ‘Hermes the thrice greatest’. This shadowy figure was the supposed author of various works on alchemy and magic, and so the term hermetic came to be roughly synonymous with alchemical.

One of the inventions credited to Hermes Trismegistus was a magic seal to make containers airtight, and by the 1660s we find hermetic being used for ‘airtight’.

hermetic (adj.)

c. 1600 (implied in hermetically), "completely sealed," also (1630s) "dealing with occult science or alchemy," from Latin hermeticus, from Greek Hermes, god of science and art, among other things, identified by Neoplatonists, mystics, and alchemists with the Egyptian god Thoth as Hermes Trismegistos "Thrice-Great Hermes," who supposedly invented the process of making a glass tube airtight (a process in alchemy) using a secret seal.

1. Their work is more cosily hermetic than ever.

彼らの仕事はいつにも増して安易で、外界の干渉を受けない。

2.the strange, hermetic world of the theatre

神秘的で世界から隔絶された演劇の世界

3.The hermetic seal on the packet means that the food lasts longer.

袋の密封印は、食品がより長い時間保存できることを示している。

4.This would permit air to enter，breaking the hermetic seal of the jar.

これは空気漏れをもたらし、缶の密封性を破壊する。

5.Its film industry operates in its own curiously hermetic way.

その映画産業は、世にも奇妙な方法で運営されている。