immortal
要点不死の
意味
- 不死の,永遠に生きる
- 永遠の名声を持つ,不滅の
- 不死の人
- 《the immortals》ギリシア・ローマの神々
- 不朽の名声を持つ人
例文
A man's body dies, but his soul is immortal.
肉体は滅びるが霊魂は不滅である。
During these years he wrote immortal poems.
この数年間に彼は不朽の名詩を書いた。
They believe that the soul is immortal.
彼らは霊魂が不滅だと信じている。
語源
im-〜でない＋mort死＋-al〜の
「死(mort)ぬことのない(im-)」「不死の」。
mortal（死ぬ運命の）、mortgage（住宅ローン）のmortも「死」。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Latin immortālis, from prefix im- (“not”) (from in-) + mortālis (“mortal”) (from mors (“death”), combining form mort- + adjectival suffix -alis), equivalent to im- + mortal. Displaced native undeadly, from Old English undēadlīċ. The term referring to the Persian soldiers was a Calque of Ancient Greek ἀθάνατος (athánatos). One suggestion claimed that "Immortals" were named by the ancient Greeks because wounded soldiers were quickly replaced, while another claimed that it was because Greek informants confused Old Persian *anauša- (“immortal, without death”) with Old Persian *anūšiya- (“companion, royal bodyguard”).