Pronounced: TEN-uh-bruss, adj
Notes: A handy word, but not one I knew
Yesterday’s word
The word demiurge is “one that is an autonomous creative force or decisive power”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
In the Platonic school of philosophy, the Demiurge is a deity who fashions the physical world in the light of external ideas. In the Timaeus, Plato credits the Demiurge with taking preexisting materials of chaos and arranging them in accorance with the models of eternal forms. Today, our word refers to the individual or group chiefly responsible for a creative idea. Our word came from Late Latin, and into there from the Greek word dēmiourgos (artisan; one with special skill), which is made up of demi- (from dēmos [people]) and ergon (worker).
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