Xenophanes

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ξενοφάνης (Xenophánēs). The name means “of foreign appearance” and is composed of ξένος (xénos, “foreign”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “appear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɛˈnɒfəniːz/

Proper noun

Xenophanes

1. A Greek given name.
2. The pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon; by extension or reference, any profound or transformative religious thinker.
   • 1931, Hermann Schneider, Margaret Minna Green, The History of World Civilization‎^[1], volume 2, page 614:

     Lucretius was the Xenophanes of Roman culture, a great theorist (visionary), an ardent disciple of Universal Nature, an enemy of all superstition, false gods, and false fear of death, […]

   • 1970, John Arthur Passmore, The Perfectibility of Man‎^[2], page 77:

     No Xenophanes arose amongst the Jews to rebuke them for ascribing to Jahweh acts which would be accounted a shame and a disgrace amongst men; […]

   • 1985, Michael Despland, The Education of Desire‎^[3], page 33:

     Euthyphro is no Xenophanes but as a religious and thinking man he can turn to great teachers; […]

Derived terms

• Xenophanean
• Xenophanic

Translations

a Greek philosopher and a poet

• Armenian: Քսենոփանես (Kʻsenopʻanes)

  Old Armenian: Քսենոփանէս (Kʻsenopʻanēs)

• Bengali: জিনোফেনিস (jinōpheniś)
• Bulgarian: Ксенофан (Ksenofan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 色诺芬尼

• Dutch: Xenophanes
• Finnish: Ksenofanes
• French: Xénophane (fr)
• German: Xenophanes
• Greek: Ξενοφάνης (el) (Xenofánis)

  Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης m (Xenophánēs)

• Italian: Senofane
• Japanese: クセノパネス (kusenopanesu)
• Korean: 크세노파네스 (keusenopaneseu)
• Latin: Xenophanes
• Latvian: Ksenofans
• Lithuanian: Ksenofanas
• Polish: Ksenofanes
• Portuguese: Xenófanes
• Romanian: Xenofan
• Russian: Ксенофа́н m (Ksenofán)
• Slovak: Xenofanes
• Slovene: Ksenofan
• Spanish: Jenófanes
• Turkish: Ksenofanes
• Ukrainian: Ксенофан m (Ksenofan)

Further reading

• “Xenophanes”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.