Gnosticism

See also: gnosticism

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder.

Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnôsis)

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Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

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Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)

Ancient Greek γνωστῐκός (gnōstĭkós)

English Gnostic

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English Gnosticism

From Gnostic + -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒstɪsɪzəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑstəsɪzəm/

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Noun

Gnosticism (countable and uncountable, plural Gnosticisms)

2. A wide variety of Jewish and early Christian sects having an interest in gnosis, or divine knowledge, and generally holding the belief that there is a god greater than the Demiurge, or the creator of the world.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 31:

     Another contemporary scholar of Gnosticism, C. G. Jung, has taken this notion of the twin ray and applied it to his own model of the contrasexual nature of the self.

Translations

Gnosticism

• Albanian: gnosticizëm m
• Arabic: غُنُّوصِيَّة f (ḡunnūṣiyya), عِرْفَانِيَّة f (ʕirfāniyya)
• Aragonese: gnostizismo m
• Armenian: գնոստիցիզմ (hy) (gnosticʻizm), գնոստիկություն (hy) (gnostikutʻyun)
• Belarusian: гнастыцызм ? (hnastycyzm)
• Bulgarian: гностици́зъм m (gnosticízǎm)
• Catalan: gnosticisme m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 諾斯底主義 / 诺斯底主义 (nok⁶ si¹ dai² zyu² ji⁶)

  Mandarin: 諾斯底主義 / 诺斯底主义 (Nuòsīdǐ zhǔyì)

• Czech: gnosticismus m, gnóze f
• Danish: gnosticisme (da) c
• Dutch: gnosticisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: gnostikismo
• Finnish: gnostilaisuus (fi)
• French: gnosticisme (fr) m
• German: Gnostizismus m
• Greek: γνωστικισμός (el) m (gnostikismós)
• Hebrew: גְּנוֹסְטִיקָה f (gnostiqa)
• Hungarian: gnoszticizmus (hu)
• Interlingua: gnosticismo
• Italian: gnosticismo m
• Japanese: グノーシス主義 (ja) (グノーシスしゅぎ, gunōshisu shugi)
• Kazakh: гностицизм (gnostisizm)
• Korean: 영지주의 (yeongjijuui)
• Latvian: gnosticisms m
• Lithuanian: gnosticizmas m
• Macedonian: гностицизам ? (gnosticizam)
• Norwegian: gnostisisme m
• Persian: گنوستیسیزم (gnostisizm), غنوصی (ġnusi)
• Polish: gnostycyzm (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: gnosticismo (pt) m
• Romanian: gnosticism (ro) n
• Russian: гностици́зм (ru) m (gnosticízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гностицѝзам m

  Latin: gnosticìzam (sh) m

• Slovene: gnosticizem (sl) m
• Spanish: gnosticismo (es) m
• Swedish: gnosticism (sv) c
• Tagalog: nostisismo
• Turkish: gnostisizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: гностицизм m (hnostycyzm)
• Urdu: معرفت (ur)

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