來自拉丁語phoenix,來自希臘語phoinix,神話中的阿拉伯神鳥,每五百年浴火重生,其字麵意思可能為紫色的。這種神鳥體現在古代多個不同文明的神話傳說中,中國神話中為鳳凰,印度神話中為Garuda,《西遊記》中大鵬金翅鳥的原型。
Ðone wudu weardaþ wundrum fægerSpelling assimilated to Greek 16c. (see ph). Figurative sense of "that which rises from the ashes of what was destroyed" is attested from 1590s. The city in Arizona, U.S., so called because it was founded in 1867 on the site of an ancient Native American settlement.
fugel feþrum se is fenix hatan
["Phoenix," c.900]
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
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