primum mobile

短语

原动天, 第十层天(2世纪希腊天文学家托勒密(Ptolemy)的天动说中的最外层天体, 带动所有天体转动)

发音

UK /ˌpɹaɪməm ˈməʊbɪli/
其它
UK /ˌpriː-/
UK /-leɪ/
US /ˌpɹaɪməm ˈmoʊbəˌli/

词形变化

prima mobilia primum mobiles 复数 primum mobiles prima mobilia 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The person or thing that is the main impetus for some action; a driving force.

    引申义
  2. 2.

    The outermost celestial sphere of the heavens in Ptolemaic astronomy, which was believed to cause all the inner spheres to rotate.

    历史 天文
  3. 3.

    The prime mover or first cause (“an initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow”).

    起因

    始因

    哲学 宗教

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

first cause prime mover

上位词 1

cause

词源

From Middle English primum mobile (“outermost celestial sphere causing other spheres to move”), borrowed from Medieval Latin prīmum mōbile (literally “first mover”), a calque of Arabic مُحَرِّك أَوَّل (muḥarrik ʔawwal, “first mover”), which is itself a calque of Ancient Greek τὸ πρῶτον κινῆσαν (tò prôton kinêsan, “prime mover”).

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