fetial

n. 古罗马祭司团成员 a. 处理国际问题的, 外交的

发音

UK /ˈfiːʃəl/
其它
US /ˈfiʃəl/

词形变化

fetials 复数 fetials

别名

fecial

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of the Roman college of priests who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations.

    历史 政治 宗教
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of or relating to a fetial (member of the Roman college of priests who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations); (by extension) ambassadorial, heraldic.

  2. 2.

    Concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace.

词源

From Latin fētiālis (“priest who sanctioned treaties and demanded satisfaction from enemies before formal declarations of war”). The root of the Latin word is thought to be Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, place, put”), also the source of the verb Latin faciō (“to do; to build, construct; to appoint”). The nominalized form of this verb, Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis (“act of putting, placement”), would have developed into an Italic noun *fētis (unattested, but conjectured to mean something like "statute, treaty" or "prescription, law", developing to mean "body of priests"), which was combined with the adjective-forming suffix -ālis to yield Latin fētiālis. The unadapted Latin forms fetialis (singular) and fetiales (plural) are also used in English, sometimes with italicization, sometimes without.

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