only-begotten

短语

adj. [古语](子女)独生的

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Being the only child of one’s parent (especially one’s father)

  2. 2.

    One of the attributes of Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God the Father.

    宗教

    Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed And [we believe] in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God.

词源

From Middle English oonlybigeten, equivalent to only + begotten. Compare also Middle English only geten, oonly geten (“only-begotten”, literally “only-gotten”) and Middle English onbygoten, oon be-gotyn, one bygeten, oon bigetun, oon bigeten (“only-begotten”, literally “one-begotten”). Calque of Latin ūnigenitus, itself a calque of Ancient Greek μονογενής (monogenḗs).

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