hermeneut
/ˈhɜːmɪˌnjuːt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A practitioner of hermeneutics, someone who interprets a text, especially a holy text.
noun
An interpreter of culture, experience, etc.
Example Sentences
- "Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts[…]."
- "He was a hermeneut who worked out striking interpretations of texts."
- "Oh, an ardent hermeneut might try to distinguish his or her own experience as more intensively "pop" than that of less authentic metaconsumers passing through Coke's world."
- "In short, Hillman is not a hermeneut but an imagist, or phenomenologist, who sticks to the image, adheres to the phenomenon, and adamantly refuses to interpret it, or reduce it to a concept."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἑρμηνευτής (hermēneutḗs, “interpreter”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ἑρμηνευτής
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈhɜːmɪˌnjuːt/