英语词汇agathist的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	agathist
词源	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] Entries linking to agathist 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." -ist word-forming element meaning "one who does or makes," also used to indicate adherence to a certain doctrine or custom, from French -iste and directly from Latin -ista (source also of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian -ista), from Greek agent-noun ending -istes, which is from -is-, ending of the stem of verbs in -izein, + agential suffix -tes. Variant -ister (as in chorister, barrister) is from Old French -istre, on false analogy of ministre. Variant -ista is from Spanish, popularized in American English 1970s by names of Latin-American revolutionary movements. agathism n. the doctrine that all things tend toward the good, 1830, from agathist + -ism. updated on September 25, 2018
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