英単語

profaneの意味・使い方・発音

profane

英 [prə'feɪn] 美 [prə'fen]
  • adj.神を冒涜する; 世俗的な; 異教的な
  • vt.冒涜; 穢れ

語源


冒涜的な世俗的な、異教的な、冒涜的な、冒涜的な

文字通り、神殿の前にあるもの、派生語源神殿を崇拝せずに通過する者、または神殿に入ることを許されない者。後に冒涜、冒涜などの動詞の意味で使われる。

英語の語源


profane
profane: [15] Anything that is profane is etymologically ‘outside the temple’ – hence, ‘secular’ or ‘irreligious’. The word comes via Old French prophane from Latin profānus, a compound adjective formed from the prefix prō- ‘before’ (used here in the sense ‘outside’) and fānum ‘temple’ (source of archaic English fane [14]).
=> fane
profane (v.)
late 14c., from Old French profaner, prophaner (13c.) and directly from Latin profanare "to desecrate, render unholy, violate," from profanus "unholy, not consecrated" (see profane (adj.)). Related: Profaned; profaning.
profane (adj.)
mid-15c., "un-ecclesiastical, secular," from Old French profane (12c.) and directly from Latin profanus "unholy, not consecrated," according to Barnhart from pro fano "not admitted into the temple (with the initiates)," literally "out in front of the temple," from pro- "before" (see pro-) + fano, ablative of fanum "temple" (see feast (n.)). Sense of "unholy, polluted" is recorded from c. 1500. Related: Profanely.

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