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单词 apotropaic
释义

apotropaic

English

WOTD – 10 January 2015

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀποτρόπαιος (apotrópaios), from ἀπό (apó, away) and τρόπος (trópos, turn); thus meaning “causing things to turn away”, as in “turns away evil”.

Adjective

apotropaic (comparative more apotropaic, superlative most apotropaic)

  1. (religion, mysticism) Intended to ward off evil. [from 1883]
    • 2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in New York Times Book Review:
      A boring subtext, about the wisdom or otherwise of actually uttering Voldemort's name, meanwhile robs the apotropaic device of its force.
    • 2010, Mary Beard, chapter 7, in Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town:
      In earlier generations scholars reacted by removing many of these objects from public view, putting them in the ‘Secret Cabinet’ of the museum at Naples or otherwise under wraps. [] More recently the fashion has been to deflect attention from their sexuality by referring to them as ‘magical’, ‘apotropaic’ or ‘averters of the evil eye’.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

apotropaic (plural apotropaics)

  1. An agent intended to ward off evil.
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