Saturday, 8 December 2012

psychopathic=السيكوباتي


psychopathic=السيكوباتي
ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
psychopathic (adj.)
1847, from Ger. psychopatisch, from Gk. psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + pathos "suffering" (see pathos).
psyche (n.)
1640s, "animating spirit," from L. psyche, from Gk. psykhe "the soul, mind, spirit, breath, life, the invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body" (personified as Psykhe, the lover of Eros), akin to psykhein "to blow, cool," from PIE root *bhes- "to blow" (cf. Skt. bhas-). The word had extensive sense development in Platonic philosophy and Jewish-influenced theological writing of St. Paul. In English, psychological sense is from 1910.
pathos (n.)
"quality that arouses pity or sorrow," 1660s, from Gk. pathos "suffering, feeling, emotion, calamity," lit. "what befalls one," related to paskhein "to suffer," and penthos "grief, sorrow;" from PIE root *kwent(h)- "to suffer, endure" (cf. O.Ir. cessaim "I suffer," Lith. kenčiu "to suffer," pakanta "patience").






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