reify
英 ['riːɪfaɪ; 'reɪɪ-]
美 ['refaɪ]
語源
具体化するラテン語のres(物、対象、事実)が語源。
英語の語源
- reify (v.)
- "make into a thing; make real or material; consider as a thing," 1854, back-formation from reification, or else from re-, stem of Latin res "thing, object, matter, affair, event, circumstance, condition," from PIE *re- "to bestow, endow" + -fy. Related: Reified; reifying.