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单词 paredrus
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paredrusn.

Forms: 1600s paredros (plural).
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin paredrus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin paredrus familiar spirit (4th cent.), also as adjective, sitting beside, of a familiar spirit (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian) < ancient Greek πάρεδρος sitting beside, a person who sits beside, an assessor, in Hellenistic Greek also familiar spirit (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. a.d., also frequently in papyri) < παρα- para- prefix1 + ἕδρα seat, base (see -hedron comb. form). Compare Middle French, French parèdre (1586 in an isolated attestation in Middle French in sense ‘familiar spirit assisting a demon’; subsequently from 1765 in various other senses).In form in quot. a1641 after the Latin accusative plural. Attested earlier as an unassimilated Latin loan:1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Assistants he had twaine, named Paredri, who sat in commission with him.
Obsolete. rare.
An assistant; spec. a familiar spirit.
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kanaima1825
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a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) iii. 161 Witches..having Familiar Spirits, Paredros, Assisters to..them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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