flamen (n.)

"古罗马祭司"，1530年代，源自拉丁语 flamen "一位神的祭司"，其起源不明，可能来自 PIE 词根 *bhlad- "崇拜"（源自哥特语 blotan，古英语 blotan "献祭"）。早在14世纪初，仿效蒙茅斯的杰弗里，也用于指古代基督教前的英国祭司。相关： Flamineous。

The old connection of flamen with Skt. brahman- is highly problematic, and has been dismissed by Schrijver. As WH surmise, the ending -en points to an archaism, probably a n[euter] noun "sacrificial act" which changed its semantics to 'priest'; for a similar shift, cf. augur "bird-observer" .... The only viable comparanda are found in [Germanic], but they show root-final (or suffixal) *-d~. [de Vaan]

flamen 与梵文 brahman- 的旧联系存在很大问题，并已被 Schrijver 驳回。正如 WH 所猜测的那样，结尾 -en 指向一种古语，可能是一个中性名词“祭祀行为”，其语义转变为“祭司”； 对于类似的转变，参见 augur “观鸟者”....唯一可行的比较对象在[日耳曼语系]中发现，但它们显示出根词末尾（或后缀）*-d~。[de Vaan]