pathos

• n.絶望、苦悩、同情、エレジャックな言葉やフレーズ

ギリシャ語のpathos「耐える」、pIE*pei「傷つける」から、語源はpathetic「患者」と同じ。

pathos

pathos: see sympathy

pathos (n.)

"quality that arouses pity or sorrow," 1660s, from Greek pathos "suffering, feeling, emotion, calamity," literally "what befalls one," related to paskhein "to suffer," and penthos "grief, sorrow;" from PIE root *kwent(h)- "to suffer, endure" (cognates: Old Irish cessaim "I suffer," Lithuanian ken?iu "to suffer," pakanta "patience").

1. The pathos of the situation brought tears to our eyes.

情況は哀れみを与え、私たちは思わず涙を流した。

2.There is abundant pathos in her words.

彼女の言葉には哀れむ力がある。

3. Pathos has this quality，that It 'seems ever addressed to one alone.

悲しい感情はいつも個人に対して発するようで、哀れな力を持っている。

4.With touching pathos he described the pangs of hunger.

飢餓の痛みを感傷的な筆致で描いた。

5.The quite magnificence of his political pathos lay in this.

彼の奥深い博大な政治的感化力はここにある。