pagan
意味
- 異教徒(キリスト教・ユダヤ教・イスラム教で自分の宗教以外の宗教,特に多神教を信じる人)
- 無宗教の人
- 異教の,多神教の
- 不信心の
例文
Pagans have deified life and Christians have deified death.
自然崇拝者は生命を、キリスト教徒は死を崇めてきました。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English pagan (adjective and noun), from Latin pāgānus (“rural, rustic; civilian”), replaced Middle English payen from the same root. The meaning “not Christian” arose in Vulgar Latin, probably from the 4th century, owing to the Roman countryside being largely non-Christian, or potentially from the “civilian” meaning—denoting those not in the “army of Christ”. As a self-designation of neopagans, attested since 1990. Partly displaced native heathen, from Old English hǣþen. Note the opposition: pagan, peasant (related via pāgus), rustic, savage (<< Latin silvāticus), villain (<< Latin vīllānus), boorish vs. urbane, civil, courteous (akin to court).