Promethean

English 2024 April 11 Etymology vertical Heinrich fueger 1817 prometheus brings fire to mankindFXD.jpg Heinrich Füger, Prometheus bringt der Menschheit das Feuer (Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind, 1790 or 1817 1). Callosamia promethea 39.JPG Something is said to be Promethean (en moth) when it pertains to the promethea silkmoth (Callosamia promethea species). en ine-pro *per- before *men- think *dʰeh₁- The adjective is derived from en Prometheus demigod in Greek mythology an suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns.adj. and n 2812991330 July 2023 1; adj en Prometheus is a en la Promētheus 1 1, and from its etymon en grc Προμηθεύς, from grc προμηθής having forethought (from grc προ- prefix meaning ‘before’ + grc μᾰνθᾰ́νω to learn; to know, understand (ultimately from en ine-pro *men- to mind; to think + ine-pro *dʰeh₁- to do; to place, put, in the sense of putting one’s mind to something)) + grc -εύς suffix forming a masculine noun of the person concerned with a thing.Prometheus n 1164490563 July 2023 1; Prometheus proper n The noun is derived from the adjective. Pronunciation en /pɹəˈmiː.θɪ.ən/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Güiseppi669-Promethean.wav RP en /pɹəˈmi.θi.ən/ /pɹoʊ-/ GA en En-us-Promethean.oga GA en Pro me the an Adjective Of or pertaining to Prometheus, a demigod in Greek mythology who created mortals from clay and stole fire from Zeus to give to them, for which Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock and having an eagle feed on his liver which grew back each night; he was later rescued by Heracles. 273 And, like Promethian life-begetting flame, / Pure bodies in the element should frame; / As to what part of heauen they hapt to stray, / There should they make another milkie way. II Epicedium 174 1 And see how the Promethean liver grows / As vulture Grief devours it; see fresh shows / Revive woe's sense and multiply her soul; XIV. Cant[icle of Canticles] II. III. 2 255 Theſe vultures in my Breſt / Gripe my Promethian heart both night and day; / en w:Edwin Black Power Struggle Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives New York, N.Y. St. Martin’s Press September 2006 11 https://archive.org/details/internalcombusti00blac/page/11/mode/1up 978-0-312-35907-2 More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel. Boldly creative, inventive, or original; skilful, talented; also, recklessly daring; audacious. II Shadow of Night 5 2 Therefore Promethean poets with the coals / Of their most genial, more-than-human souls / In living verse, created men like these, / With shapes of Centaurs, Harpies, Lapithes, That Prelatical Jurisdiction Opposeth the Reason and End of the Gospel and of State 50 [I]t vvould be helpfull to us if vve might borrovv ſuch autority as the Rhetoricians by patent may give us, vvith a kind of Promethean skill to ſhape and faſhion this outvvard man into the ſimilitude of a body, and ſet him viſible before us; imagining the inner man only as the ſoul. en 1978 Kołakowski Leszek Leszek Kołakowski w:Main Currents of Marxism II: The Golden Age pl Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój P[aul] S[teven] Falla 1976 w:Clarendon Press w:Oxford 9780198245698 961252281 443 https://archive.org/details/maincurrentsofma00lesz/page/443 The culture of the proletariat must borrow nothing from the tradition of the privileged classes but must make a Promethean effort to create ex nihilo, paying attention to its own needs and to nothing else whatever. Of a Romantic literary hero: defying traditional moral categories; rebelling against a larger order; persecuted but dauntless. en mothen rare Of or pertaining to the promethea silkmoth (Callosamia promethea species). Derived terms en Prometheanism Translations of or pertaining to Prometheus Czech: cs prométheovský Dutch: nl prometheïsch Finnish: fi Prometheuksen, fi prometeaaninen French: fr prométhéen m Italian: it prometeico Macedonian: mk прометејски Spanish: es prometeico Swedish: sv prometeisk Welsh: cy Prometheaidd boldly creative, inventive, or original creative inventive original Dutch: nl prometheïsch Finnish: fi omintakeinen Macedonian: mk skilful, talented skilfull talented recklessly daring audacious of a Romantic literary hero: defying traditional moral categories, etc. Dutch: nl prometheïsch Finnish: fi prometeaaninen Macedonian: mk of or pertaining to Callosamia promethea Finnish: fi Callosamia promethea -koihin liittyvä Macedonian: mk Noun One with the qualities of Prometheus, or who acts in a Promethean manner (audaciously, creatively, etc.). en G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton The Outline of the Fall The Thing: Why I am a Catholic New York, N.Y. Dodd, Mead & Company 1929 1930 226 https://archive.org/details/thingwhyiamcatho0000gkch/page/226/mode/1up 21936118 The Fall is a view of life. It is not only the only enlightening, but the only encouraging view of life. It holds, as against the only real alternative philosophies, those of the Buddhist or the Pessimist or the Promethean. en also attributive historical A kind of lucifer match consisting of a glass tube containing sulfuric acid coated on the outside with a flammable mixture of potassium chlorate and sugar and wrapped in paper rolls; the match was lit by crushing the tube with pliers, causing the acid to react with and ignite the flammable components. This type of match was superseded by the friction match which was lit by rubbing against a rough surface. III III 47 I carried with me some promethean matches, which I ignited by biting; it was thought so wonderful that a man should strike fire with his teeth, that it was usual to collect the whole family to see it: I was once offered a dollar for a single one. Translations one with the qualities of Prometheus or who acts in a Promethean manner Finnish: fi Prometheuksen kaltainen henkilö Macedonian: mk kind of lucifer match Finnish: fi Promethean-tulitikku Macedonian: mk References Further reading match Prometheus Anagrams en aeehmnoprt heptameron thermopane en eponyms terms derived from Greek mythology en Greek mythology