psychopomp

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈsaɪkəʊpɒmp/    美 /ˈsaɪkoʊpɑmp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spirit, deity, person, etc., who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife.
    — As the souls of the departed are symbolized as rats, so is the psychopomp himself often figured as a dog. Sarameias, the Vedic counterpart of Hermes and Odin, sometimes appears invested with canine attributes; and countless other examples go to show that by the early Aryan mind the howling wind was conceived as a great dog or wolf.

词形变化

psychopomps plural

词源

From Latin psȳchopompus, from Ancient Greek ψῡχοπομπός (psūkhopompós), from ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “soul”) + πομπός (pompós, “conductor”).
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