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Greek English True Meant Dokein Latin Recorded 5401.Orthodox

正面 5401.orthodox
英 ['ɔːθədɒks]美 ['ɔrθədɑks]

背面
释义:
adj. 正统的;传统的;惯常的;东正教的n. 正统的人;正统的事物
例句:
1. It doesn't sound exactly orthodox, if I may say so.恕我直言,那听起来不太符合常规。

1、ortho- "right, true, correct" + dox-.
orthodox 正统的ortho-,正确的,-dox,观念,思想,词源同doctor,dogma.
orthodoxorthodox: [16] Greek orthós meant ‘straight, correct’ (it enters into numerous English compounds, including orthography ‘correct spelling’ [15] and orthopaedic [19]). Greek dóxa meant ‘opinion’; it was derived from the verb dokein ‘think’. Put them together and you got orthódoxos ‘having the right opinion’, which passed into English via ecclesiastical Latin orthodoxus.orthodox (adj.)mid-15c., of opinions, faith, from Late Latin orthodoxus, from Greek orthodoxos "having the right opinion," from orthos "right, true, straight" (see ortho-) + doxa "opinion, praise," from dokein "to seem," from PIE root *dek- "to take, accept" (see decent). As the name of the Eastern Church, first recorded in English 1772; in reference to a branch of Judaism, first recorded 1853."

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