英语词汇agatha的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	agatha
词源	Agatha fem. proper name, Latinized form of Greek Agathē, fem. of agathos "good, fit; gentle, noble" (of persons, opposed to kakoi), which is of unknown origin. Never a popular name in U.S., and all but unused there since 1940. The Greek adjective grew to include notions of "wealthy, powerful," also "brave, good at fighting" (as qualities attributed to the chiefs) as well as "good" in a moral sense. Also, of things, "serviceable, useful," and, abstractly, "the good." Entries linking to agatha agathist n. 1816, from Greek agathos "good" (see Agatha) + -ist. Doctor Kearney, who formerly, with so much reputation, delivered lectures in this place on the history of Rome, observed to me once, that he was not an optimist, but an "agathist"; that he believed that every thing tended to good, but did not think himself competent to determine what was absolutely the best. The distinction is important, and seems to be fatal to the system of Optimism. [George Miller, "Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History," Dublin, 1816] updated on September 15, 2022
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