alchemy

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

1. The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
2. The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
3. (slang) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈælkəmi/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

From Old French alkimie, arquemie (French alchimie), from Medieval Latin alchēmia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “ingot, bar”). Compare Spanish alquimia and Italian alchimia.

Προτάσεις

Having heard that , the boy became even more interested in alchemy .

Έχοντας ακούσει αυτό, το αγόρι έγινε ακόμα περισσότερο ενδιαφέρον για την αλχημεία.