Xenophanes

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ξενοφάνης (Xenophánēs). The name means “of foreign appearance” and is composed of ξένος (xénos, “foreign”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “appear”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zɛˈnɒfəniːz/

Proper noun

Xenophanes

A Greek given name.
The pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon; by extension or reference, any profound or transformative religious thinker.
- 1931, Hermann Schneider & Margaret Minna Green, The History of World Civilization‎, volume 2, page 614:
  Lucretius was the Xenophanes of Roman culture, a great theorist (visionary), an ardent disciple of Universal Nature, an enemy of all superstition, false gods, and false fear of death, […]
- 1970, John Arthur Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man‎, page 77:
  No Xenophanes arose amongst the Jews to rebuke them for ascribing to Jahweh acts which would be accounted a shame and a disgrace amongst men; […]
- 1985, Michael Despland, The Education of Desire‎, page 33:
  Euthyphro is no Xenophanes but as a religious and thinking man he can turn to great teachers; […]

Derived terms

Xenophanean
Xenophanic

Translations

a Greek philosopher and a poet

Armenian: Քսենոփանես (Kʿsenopʿanes)
Old Armenian: Քսենոփանէս (Kʿsenopʿanēs)
Bengali: জিনোফেনিস (jinophenis)
Bulgarian: Ксенофан (Ksenofan)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 色诺芬尼
Dutch: Xenophanes
Finnish: Ksenofanes
French: Xénophane (fr)
German: Xenophanes
Greek: Ξενοφάνης (el) (Xenofánis)
Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης m (Xenophánēs)
Italian: Senofane
Japanese: クセノパネス (kusenopanesu)
Korean: 크세노파네스 (keusenopaneseu)
Latin: Xenophanes
Latvian: Ksenofans
Lithuanian: Ksenofanas
Polish: Ksenofanes
Portuguese: Xenófanes
Romanian: Xenofan
Russian: Ксенофа́н m (Ksenofán)
Slovak: Xenofanes
Slovene: Ksenofan
Spanish: Jenófanes
Turkish: Ksenofanes
Ukrainian: Ксенофан m (Ksenofan)